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Questions & Help Mar 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM

India to hold off on US trade deal amid new probe, sources say

Posted by Uchiha_Madara_Nipple

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-hold-off-us-trade-deal-amid-new-probe-sources-say-2026-03-13/
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Mo_h Mar 13, 2026 +242
No surprise. Especially when the dealmaker-in-chief is busy with Wars!
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rubywpnmaster Mar 13, 2026 +51
Seems like the biggest reason would be that SCOTUS snipped his ghoulies out from under him when it came to tariff powers. He can’t issue targeted tariffs so easily now and even the tariffs he has control over are very temporary.
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MentalSky_ Mar 13, 2026 +16
Isn’t that why they are making up a case that there are unfair trade imbalances. Which will allow him to put tariffs on countries?
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StarGaurdianBard Mar 14, 2026 +1
Isng that the current Tariffs? He declared that everyone has a trade imbalance with us and used that as a way to place them. He cant do permanent tarrifs
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AssassinInValhalla Mar 13, 2026 +7
The sad part is the section 122 tariffs are also likely illegal, but they'll expire before the cases can get litigated/appealed all the way up. For section 122 there needs to be a balance of payment deficit, that we currently are not experiencing. It's super neat.
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supercali45 Mar 15, 2026 +1
SCOTUS 6 is responsible for all this bullshit
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Sic_Semper_Dumbasses Mar 13, 2026 +131
That is the biggest and loudest duh ever.
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thesvsb Mar 13, 2026 +129
Once a geopolitical teacher in Germany told me (in 2012) that only 4 major countries can be said to have almost independent of US in their foreign & defence policy - Russia, China, India and France. She said this will remain so in next 2 or 3 decades. Trump in just 14 years is going to increase such countries. Today Japan, S Korea, Brazil, Germany, Poland, heck even Canada & the UK are seeking ways to diversify from the US - both from US geopolitics (which is basically bribing Trump now) and US defence. It will take time but the trust in the US is gone. Really gone.
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el_dude_brother2 Mar 13, 2026 +59
Trump talking about a kill switch in all their defence products has really woken everyone up. That showing off stuff is so dumb but consquential.
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Consistent-Throat130 Mar 13, 2026 +28
That was more or less public knowledge. Right around the time it got out that you couldn't program mission plans into recent fighter jets without connecting to The Manufacturer's cloud computers.  The arrangement makes the power obvious. The existence of the feature made it obvious it would be repeated across hardware. 
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redvelvetcake42 Mar 13, 2026 +13
>Today Japan, S Korea, Brazil, Germany, Poland, Japan and SK are being pushed ever closer to China. There's no reason for either of them to maintain strong relations with the US at this point. Nobody is going to want to buy US arms at all and the tech sector is going to get absolutely throttled as all these countries cycle off of Google, AWS and Microsoft products. Apple will be harder but will likely do what's asked of them and tend to have better security measures than the rest.
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CloudZ1116 Mar 13, 2026 +6
SK maybe, Japan definitely not. If anything their current government is doubling down hard on antagonizing China and sucking up to Trump.
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clumslime Mar 14, 2026 +2
The current Japanese government is trying to win more US attention after pushing China further away. Not sure how much more attention US can give. The orange man does want 350 billions that Japan promised during their trade talk last year. We will know soon after they meet in 19th this month
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Steelcry666 Mar 13, 2026
They'll change their minds when they run out of oil.
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Thin-Theory-4805 Mar 13, 2026 +2
Your Geopolitical teacher indeed was right. France is 50/50, their economy is at the mercy of Germany now. Unless one has the ability to control their currency devaluation or revaluation of it, one can never be free.
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K9TimeNYC Mar 13, 2026 +16
They all have their own agreements and groups without the U.S. We're becoming the fat beefy overfed bully who goes around bullying...but this bully doesn't just pick one "nerd"...he starts c*** with everyone in sight...well eventually it'll be FAFO... But the bully hops on his private jet that a country gifted him, and difts off to a private island while everyone is left with the mess.
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Hortjoob Mar 13, 2026 +61
The US soon to find out it can't bully its way into what it wants. More news at 11.
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RLewis8888 Mar 13, 2026 +19
Too late, Trump/MAGA already celebrated it as a win.
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mrdominoe Mar 13, 2026 +33
Art of the deal, indeed.
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ZenRage Mar 13, 2026 +11
It is time to recognize that, leaving aside the capricious to the point of looking insane US head of state, the US diplomatic corp has been degraded to the point that activities that were regular and well understood just 15 months ago, like negotiating a trade deal, have become difficult and will become impossible unless the US promptly reverses course. The US SHOULD be sending experienced diplomats to middle eastern states to address their concerns about a sudden war and attacks on them stemming from same... Those diplomats are gone.
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Trick-Set-1165 Mar 13, 2026 +6
>Indian ships are being allowed through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran calls India a friend. >Prospective trade deal between US and India put on hold by India. I’m shocked! Well, not that shocked.
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Uchiha_Madara_Nipple Mar 13, 2026 +5
Well, the hold was more due to this: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-opens-new-unfair-trade-probes-rebuild-trumps-tariff-pressure-2026-03-11/ than the Iran issue.
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Centeredrightbhakt05 Mar 17, 2026 +1
I remember one interview from Howard Lutnik who said US did not seal the deal because Modi did not call Washington back within 2 weeks. Fast forward to February this year when the US supreme Court made the tariffs illegitimate the very next day Indian bureaucrats were going to US for fixing the details of the India US trade deal which was previously agreed. As soon as supreme Court declared the tariffs illegitimate India pulled out of the conversation. A week later Lutnik was in India to discuss the trade deal. Let's see how much time now Lutnik has to get the trade deal done.
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[deleted] Mar 13, 2026 -21
How about they quit scam calling us too.
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Racronimus Mar 13, 2026 +13
Cope harder MAGA
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[deleted] Mar 13, 2026 -13
Hey short-bus rider this has nothing to do with maga. Im just tired of the scam callers.
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Radiant-Push-2896 Mar 13, 2026 +5
Stop your people who harvest and sell those numbers!
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[deleted] Mar 13, 2026 -2
You first
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gkdlswm5 Mar 13, 2026 +5
Just put the fries in the bag bro 
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liptickletaffy Mar 13, 2026 -25
Another reason may be that India is trying to rebuild their reputation in BRICS after Modi met with Bibi a few weeks before the Excursion and signed some deals, and then they ignominiously set up the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena to be sunk. Awkward that they are the host nation this year.
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deep639 Mar 13, 2026 +28
Its been reported by different sources now from both India and Iran, that India offered docking to all three Iranian ships including the Dena. But the Dena was already out of Indian waters so they asked Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka waited a few hours to make sure that they were not going to piss off America, and in that time the US submarine struck the ship. Almost everything is covered in this article. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/world/asia/iran-ships-sri-lanka.html?smid=tw-share
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liptickletaffy Mar 13, 2026 +4
I stand corrected
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chni2cali Mar 13, 2026 +17
India has working relations with every country except some of its neighbors. India Israel relations have been going steady for decades
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Uchiha_Madara_Nipple Mar 13, 2026 +18
> Another reason may be that India is trying to rebuild their reputation in BRICS after Modi met with Bibi a few weeks before the Excursion and signed some deals, and then they ignominiously set up the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena to be sunk. Awkward that they are the host nation this year. Fake, the West and Americans socialists/traditionalists actually care more about BRICS than the nations in it lol. I have almost never seen an Indian, Chinese, Brazilian or our member nation ordinary citizens give a damn. > https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2e4yxj0pd3o India offered sanctuary to Iranian ship three days before US sank it
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rocked_ribbed_human Mar 13, 2026 +12
India asked IRIS DENA to be docked until the conditions are viable to move, they didnt stay back, whereas the other fleet is happily docked at the Indian waters! Also, India has bailed out Russia through a financial crisis by buying all their oil, so yeah, Russia aint gonna carry any grudges! Also, BRICS does not care about what an independent nation does, as long as they dont threaten the mutual interests of BRICS! And you really think anybody in BRICS cares for Iran??? If they cared, they would have been right beside Iran, helping them! This is the modern world, everybody is here to protect their own interests!
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Typical_Spray928 Mar 13, 2026 +5
But i thought y'all Americans "don't give a f" about what India does and you know Indian politics more than an average Indian
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K9TimeNYC Mar 13, 2026 +2
Haters love to do their research.
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