FILE PHOTO: A man holds the flags of India and the U.S. while people take part in the 35th India Day Parade in New York August 16, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will impose higher tariffs on 28 U.S. products including almonds, apples and walnuts, a government notificatihere;jsessionid=05BB93EF9871E631DCA5475F5330BC4E said.
The new duties take effect from Sunday.
Reuters had previously reported that India was preparing to levy higher tariffs following Washington’s withdrawal of key trade privileges for New Delhi.
India initially issued an order in June last year to raise import taxes as high as 120% on a slew of U.S. items, incensed by Washington’s refusal to exempt it from higher steel and aluminum tariffs.
But New Delhi repeatedly delayed raising tariffs as the two nations engaged in trade talks. Trade between them stood at about $142.1 billion in 2018.
Reporting by Nidhi Verma and Neha Dasgupta; Editing by Hugh Lawson