As US negotiators headed to India for two days of talks to try and seal a trade deal, President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on Indian rice citing concerns over rice dumping in the US market. Washington has already imposed 50 per cent tariffs on Delhi, the highest on any country globally.

At a roundtable in the White House, when a Louisiana-based farmer representative said they are struggling due to the dumping of rice in the US by countries such as India, China and Thailand, Trump said countries should not be dumping rice in the US and that tariffs will solve the problem.

Picking only India among the three countries named by the farmer representative, Trump asked US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent: “Why is India allowed to do that? They have to pay tariffs. Do they have

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