Safeguard measures are tasks of actions to protect the national industry against import surge. | Photo credit: Amit Dave
The United States has said that it is ready with India in the WTO with the rates of 25 percent that imposed on steel and aluminum imports of all countries provided they were not treated as safeguard measures as New Delhi requested.
In response to the request for consultations of India on tariffs under the WTO agreement on safeguards made last week, the United States said in a presentation that these actions were not safeguard actions but security measures to protect national security.
“However, we are open to discuss this or another problem with India. Any discussion about tariffs would not be under the agreement on safeguards and would be without prejudice to our opinion, tariffs are not salgeids over the salt to the insurance of the Feguitas, persegurous, persegatus, circulated on Thursday.
Safeguard measures are tasks of shares, in the form of higher rates or other restrictions, to protect the national industry against imports. However, the WTO rules stipulate that serious injuries to the local industry should be tested first without which the measures would be valid.
Tariff impact
25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed by Trump again last month annul all agreements of the past. The new tasks affect approximately $ 5 billion of exports of engineering goods in India and are a threat to an aluminum export worth approximately $ 1 billion.
In the presentation of his last week to the WTO, India pointed out that the US, on March 8, 2018, Promildgelt Safeguard measure in certain steel and aluminum items by imposing 25 percent and 10 percent of the AD VALEEM rate, respectively, was reviewed on March 2025.
“Despite the US characterization of these measures as security measures, they are, in essence, safeguard measures,” said the presentation of India. He requested consultations on the matter, since he had “important export interest.”
Trump rate
When Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum in 2018, the first mandate as president, India initiated WTO consultations that initially did not obtain results. Therefore, in 2019, India imposed retaliation rates on 28 products exported by the United States.
In 2023, after successful negotiations with the Biden regime, New Delhi receded the retaliation tariffs on key items, such as apples, almonds, nuts and lentils, and the United States partially lifted the duty quas.
“India hopes that it has productive discussions with the US. Uu. On steel and aluminum rates depending on how things develop in the past,” said a source that tracked the matter.
Posted on April 17, 2025