Trump calls India-U.S. trade relationship 'a totally one sided disaster' after Modi visits China

U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday doubled down connected his disapproval of India, calling commercialized ties with the state "a wholly 1 sided disaster!" aft Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China to be the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.

Trump successful a station connected Truth Social besides said that India had offered to chopped its tariffs to zero, but it was "getting late," and that the state should person done truthful "years ago," without elaborating connected erstwhile specified an connection was made.

This comes against the backdrop of the U.S. imposing 50% tariffs connected the country, including secondary duties of 25% past period for purchasing Russian oil, which India has called "unfair, unjustified and unreasonable."

Trump reiterated that India was buying lipid and arms from Russia, and accused New Delhi of selling the U.S. "massive amounts of goods," but imposing precocious tariffs connected U.S. exports to India.

"The crushed is that India has charged us, until now, specified precocious Tariffs, the astir of immoderate country, that our businesses are incapable to merchantability into India. It has been a wholly 1 sided disaster!" helium wrote.

Data from the World Trade Organization shows that India's imposes 6.2% mean tariff connected U.S. imports into the country, connected a trade-weighted basis, portion U.S. levies 2.4% connected Indian goods. The trade-weighted mean is the mean complaint of work per imported worth unit.

The U.S.-India relations person soured implicit the past mates of months, upending much than 2 decades of improving ties, with respective U.S. officials expanding their disapproval of New Delhi implicit its Russian lipid imports. India has called retired the U.S. and European Union for their commercialized with Russia, portion targeting New Delhi.

India's overseas ministry past period said "it is revealing that the precise nations criticizing India are themselves indulging successful commercialized with Russia. Unlike our case, specified commercialized is not adjacent a captious nationalist compulsion [for them]."

Back successful May, India had reportedly offered a "zero-for-zero" tariff woody connected steel, car components and pharmaceuticals connected a reciprocal basis, up to a definite quantity of imports. However, some New Delhi and Washington failed to travel to a commercialized deal, starring Trump to impose 50% tariffs connected Indian exports.

India's Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping astatine the SCO acme successful Tianjin held betwixt between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, with some sides affirming the value of being partners, not rivals.

"The betterment of relations with India is simply a large deal. It allows India to entree highly captious intelligence spot that it needs if it is to industrialize and boost manufacturing," Marko Papic, main strategist, GeoMacro Strategy BCA Access, said successful an email.

"But, implicit the agelong term, the U.S. is losing the propaganda conflict to overgarment China arsenic the trouble-maker-in-chief. And that lone further ossifies multipolarity," helium said.

— CNBC's Evelyn Cheng contributed to this report.