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Donald Trump announced trade deal with Indonesia and said that the US will have “full access” to everything in the country and claimed that India is “working along same line”.
US close to making deal with India, says Trump (Reuters File Image)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) said that he struck a deal with Indonesia, as part of which the US will have “full access” to the country, and went on to claim that “India is working along the same line”.
He announced that Indonesia will pay reduced 19% tariffs on its exports to the US, while there will be no levies on the products from the United States, giving America “full access to everything” in the Asian country.
Trump Claims India Working Along Same Line As Indonesia
As the India-US trade talks are underway, Trump claimed that India is working along the same line as Indonesia.
“We made a deal with Indonesia. I spoke to their really great president…and we made the deal. We have full access to Indonesia, everything. As you know, Indonesia is very strong on copper, but we have full access to everything. They are going to pay 19% and we will pay no tariffs. They are giving us access into Indonesia, which we never had. That’s probably the biggest part of the deal…India is basically working along that same line. We’re going to have access into India,” Trump told reporters.
#WATCH | US President Donald Trump says, “We made a deal with Indonesia. I spoke to their really great president…and we made the deal. We have full access to Indonesia, everything. As you know, Indonesia is very strong on copper, but we have full access to everything. We will… pic.twitter.com/hSFArf17Ly— ANI (@ANI) July 15, 2025
“You have to understand, we had no access to any of these countries. Our people couldn’t go in, and now we’re getting access because of what we’re doing with the tariffs,” he added.
His claims come days after Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that India is negotiating the trade deal with the US “keeping national interest in mind”.
“India does not negotiate under deadlines; we negotiate keeping national interest in mind. National interest is paramount in all our work across the world,” Goyal had told reporters earlier this month.
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