Trump Says India Offered to Remove All Tariffs on US Goods (3)

President Donald Trump said India has made an offer to drop tariffs on US goods, as the Asian nation negotiates a deal to avert higher import taxes.

Speaking Thursday at an event with business leaders in Qatar, Trump said the Indian government has “offered us a deal where basically they are willing to literally charge us no tariff.”

Trump didn’t provide further details of New Delhi’s apparent offer and the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told reporters later in the day that trade talks between ...