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The U.S. said India volition little tariffs connected a “vast array” of American concern and cultivation goods, specified arsenic “fruits, vegetables”, to zero per cent nether the commercialized woody announced by President Donald Trump.
The U.S. described this arsenic a “big win” portion noting that India volition proceed to power “certain cardinal areas” that bask protection.
"This is it. The clip has come, and present we person the deal. We'll decorativeness papering it, but we cognize the specifics. We cognize the details. It's a precise breathtaking opportunity,” United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday (February 3, 2026) successful an interrogation to CNBC Squawk Box.
Mr. Greer said that the U.S. volition proceed to support immoderate level of tariff against India — 18% — “because we person this elephantine commercialized shortage with them, but they've besides agreed to trim their tariffs for america connected a assortment of cultivation products, manufactured goods, chemicals, aesculapian devices, etc. It's an breathtaking accidental for some countries,” helium said.
Giving details of the deal, Mr. Greer added that with India close now, connected concern goods, the mean tariff is astir 13.5%.
"That's going to spell to zero for virtually everything. When I accidental virtually, I mean 98-99%. On the cultivation side, there's a vast, immense array of cultivation goods. So it volition spell to zero,” helium said.
"India, similar each state successful the world, including the United States, has immoderate extortion astir definite cardinal areas wherever they'll proceed to power that. We’ll proceed to enactment connected access. But for a assortment of things, histrion nuts, wine, spirits, fruits, vegetables, etc, they're going down to zero. This is simply a large win,” Mr. Greer said.
Separately, the USTR said successful a station connected X that “India volition little tariffs connected a wide array of U.S. concern and cultivation goods to 0%. President Trump’s historical woody with India delivers unprecedented marketplace entree for American farmers and producers.” On the non-tariff barriers, helium said that getting escaped of tariffs is 1 thing, but often, the non-tariff barriers airs problems.
"So we person an knowing and statement with the Indians arsenic good connected a assortment of method barriers to commercialized areas wherever they person not accepted U.S. standards."
“We cognize American goods are safe, we cognize they're effective, etc. We person effectual regularisation successful the U.S., sometimes excessively effective. So we person an statement with them connected a process for recognising definite U.S. standards. They evidently person their ain governmental considerations, and they person their ain processes for accepting those standards, but that's a cardinal information of this commercialized statement that should unfastened up this marketplace of implicit a cardinal radical to U.S. goods,” Mr. Greer said.
When asked astir Delhi’s Russian lipid purchases, Mr. Greer said that anterior to 2022-23, India truly didn't import Russian crude.
"They took vantage of a concern wherever Russian crude was trading astatine a discount due to the fact that they couldn't get it to immoderate different countries due to the fact that of sanctions. President Trump precise accurately...put the Indians connected announcement that we presumption this arsenic supporting the Russian warfare effort."
“And starting astatine the extremity of past year, the Indians started winding down their acquisition of Russian oil. We've been monitoring that. They've been diversifying purchases of vigor from the U.S., not conscionable oil, but besides gas, propane, and different things. That's been going up. We'll support monitoring that. Obviously, they privation to diversify from different sources too, whether it's Venezuela oregon the Gulf, etc. There are a batch of opportunities to bash this. The Indians are making the close choice,” Mr. Greer said.
In a Truth Social station connected Monday (February 2, 2026), Mr. Trump had said that, effectual immediately, the 2 sides agreed to a commercialized woody nether which the US volition little its reciprocal tariff imposed connected India from 25% to 18%. India volition besides determination guardant to trim its tariffs and non-tariff barriers against the United States to “zero".
“The Prime Minister besides committed to ‘BUY AMERICAN’, astatine a overmuch higher level, successful summation to implicit $500 BILLION DOLLARS of U.S. Energy, Technology, Agricultural, Coal, and galore different products.
“Our astonishing narration with India volition beryllium adjacent stronger going forward. Prime Minister Modi and I are 2 radical who GET THINGS DONE, thing that cannot beryllium said for most,” Mr. Trump said.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins besides thanked Mr. Trump for “once again” delivering for American farmers.
“New US-India woody volition export much American workplace products to India's monolithic market, lifting prices, and pumping currency into agrarian America,” Mr. Rollins had said successful a station connected X.
Noting that successful 2024, America’s cultivation commercialized shortage with India was $1.3 billion, she said India’s increasing colonisation is an “important market” for American cultivation products and the woody volition spell a agelong mode to reducing this deficit.
“America First triumph connected apical of the dozens of deals for agriculture,” Mr. Rollins had said.
