Trump Says India Offered to Remove All Tariffs on US Goods

US President Donald Trump has said that India has offered to drop all tariffs on goods imported from his country.

Trump said at an event in Doha, that the Indian government has “offered us a deal where basically they are willing to literally charge us no tariff.”

India and the US are currently in talks to negotiate a trade agreement. Delhi has not yet commented on the remarks. 

No further details regarding the purported deal have so far been made public.

Trump was speaking at an event with business leaders where he announced a series of deals between the US and Qatar, including for Boeing jets.

The US president made the comments while speaking about Apple’s plans to make iPhones in India, saying he had told CEO Tim Cook that he didn’t want him to build in India because it was “one of the highest tariff nations in the world”.