Trump imposes additional 25% tariff on goods from India

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) imposing an additional 25% tariff on goods from India, saying the country directly or indirectly imported Russian oil.

The move comes after Mr. Trump on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) said India has not been a good trading partner and warned of raising the tariffs “very substantially” over the next 24 hours over India’s purchase of Russian oil.

“With India, what people don’t like to say about India, they’re the highest tariff nation. They have the highest tariff of anybody. We do very, very little business with India because their tariffs are so high,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with CNBC Squawk Box.

“India has not been a good trading partner, because they do a lot of business with us, but we don’t do business with them. So we settled on 25% (tariff), but I think I’m going to raise that very substantially over the next 24 hours, because they’re buying Russian oil. They’re fuelling the war machine. And if they’re going to do that, then I’m not going to be happy,” he added.