{"id":73297,"date":"2025-08-08T04:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/07\/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:28:05","slug":"modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73297","title":{"rendered":"Modi ready to \u2018pay a heavy price\u2019 as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry calls 50% levy \u2018unjustified and unreasonable\u2019 and accuses US of double standards<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has said he is ready to \u201cpay a very heavy price\u201d for resisting US attempts to dictate the country\u2019s trade policies, as India took a defiant position in the wake of Trump\u2019s punitive export tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>In an executive order signed on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/06\/trump-india-tariffs-russia-brics\">Trump slapped India with an additional 25% tariff<\/a>, in a move he described as punishment for continuing to purchase large quantities of Russian oil and \u201cfuelling Russia\u2019s war machine\u201d. It came on top of a 25% tariff for Indian exports already announced by the US president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/07\/modi-ready-to-pay-a-heavy-price-as-india-seeks-to-resist-trump-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry calls 50% levy \u2018unjustified and unreasonable\u2019 and accuses US of double standardsThe Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has said he is ready to \u201cpay a very heavy price\u201d for resisting US attempts to dictate the country\u2019s trade policie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,62,433,61,3280,3279,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73297\/revisions\/73298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}