Won’t End Well For India : White House Trade Advisor Navarro On Trade Negotiations

9th September 2025 at 11:08 AM

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White House trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday said India must come around at some point on trade negotiations with the US or else it won't end well for Delhi.

New Delhi : White House trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday said India must come around at some point on trade negotiations with the US or else it “won’t end well” for Delhi. But it’s absolutely true. They have the highest tariffs in any major country in the world against the United States. We got to deal with that, Navarro said. He added that India never bought oil from Moscow before Russia invaded Ukraine, except for like little tiny drops of it.

He listed the great trade deals that the US has inked with the European Union, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia, saying “all these countries are working very closely with us because they realise that they’ve been taking too much advantage of the US and also because they need American markets. I think India must come around at some point. And if it doesn’t, it’s laying down with Russia and China, and that won’t end well for India, he warned.

On additional sanctions on China, which is the largest purchaser of Russian oil, Navarro said, We’re walking a fine line here with all of this. I think that what’s got to happen is India’s got to stop buying Russian oil. That’s going to be good for the whole peace; the road to peace partly runs through New Delhi. Europe certainly has to stop buying Russian oil.with China, we got over 50 per cent tariffs on them, and we’re doing the best we can in terms of negotiating to protect the American people without hurting the American people.