President Donald Trump has announced that trade talks with India have resumed days after he doubled tariffs on it from 25% to 50%, saying India could cut its duties on the United States “to nothing.”

In a social media post on Monday, Trump complained that the U.S. does “very little business with India,” arguing “they sell us massive amounts of goods, their biggest ‘client,’ but we sell them very little.” The U.S. had a $45.8 billion trade deficit with India last year, according to Census Bureau data.

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