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US Senators Call on Trump to Ease India’s 30% Import Duty on Pulse
Senators Daines and Cramer highlight India's 30% tariff on yellow peas and urge Trump to secure better terms for U.S. farmers in future trade talks.
- On Jan 16, Senators Steve Daines and Kevin Cramer wrote to President Donald Trump urging him to press India over pulse tariffs and address pulse-crop market access in trade talks.
- USTR found India's average applied agricultural tariff was 39%, with New Delhi's measures including a 30% duty on yellow peas effective Nov 1, 2025.
- The senators highlighted that Montana and North Dakota are the top U.S. pulse producers while India consumes about 27% of the global total, and US pulse crop producers face a significant competitive disadvantage due to what they described as `unfair` Indian tariffs.
- Recalling past engagement, the senators urged diplomatic talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, noting their 2020 hand-delivered letter helped bring U.S. producers to negotiation tables and called such talks `mutually beneficial`.
- USTR flagged technical and market-access barriers that curtailed US agricultural exports to India, and senators said American farmers have `tremendous capacity to feed and fuel the world` if trade opportunities open.
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Did India silently strike back at Trump by taxing US pulses?
In the letter to Trump, the senators flagged that India imposed a 30% tariff on US yellow peas on October 30 last year. The move went largely unnoticed and was not publicised by the government, revealing the delicate balancing act by India.
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