"Now, the prime minister, who I think is a fantastic man, called me the other day and said we are lowering it to 50 per cent. He gets 50 (per cent), and they think we're doing -- like they're doing us a favour. And he said, 'I just want to inform you that we have reduced it to 75, but we have further reduced it to 50'," Trump said, mocking Prime Minister Modi. And we have many deals like that," he said.He said the US gets "zero" when it buys an Indian motorcycle. And India sells us a lot of motorbikes ," Trump said.This is for the second time in a month that Trump raised the issue of high import duties on motorcycles by India.Earlier, he had called it "unfair" and threatened to increase the tariff on import of Indian motorcycles to the US.
Source: Economic Times February 27, 2018 04:15 UTC