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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicTrade tariffs

Topic: trade tariffs

Indian markets open in red after Trump’s 25% trade tariff announcement on Colombia

The Nifty 50 index opened at 22,940.15, falling by 152.05 points or 0.66 per cent, while the BSE Sensex dropped 490.03 points or 0.64 per cent to open at 75,700.43.

Indian steelmakers ask government to double tariffs on steel as imports from China rise

Finished steel imports from China hit a seven-year high over April-August while overall finished steel imports hit a six-year high of 3.7 million metric tons.

US targets cheap products coming in from China. What’s the ‘de minimis’ loophole it’s trying to plug

Biden administration puts in new curbs to counter low-value products mainly originating from China-founded e-commerce platforms. This comes 2 months ahead of US presidential elections.

At WTO’s India review, US, China and EU slam its ‘increasing’ trade barriers

US says if restrictions aren’t checked, India can’t be integrated into global supply chains. China raises FDI issue, EU says Covid has amplified barriers.

India ‘critically dependent’ on China in imports across 86 tariff lines, GoM report says

GoM to promote manufacturing suggests govt departments should work to cut down imports like refrigerators, point-of-sale machines, 5G optical fibre.

India risks hurting its exports to RCEP countries for very reason it quit the trade bloc

Tariffs will be eliminated on at least 92% of traded goods among the 15 nations that signed the RCEP. Meanwhile, some of India’s top 10 exports will face erosion in market share.

Soaring cost of beer – the big price Chinese will pay for their trade spat with Australia

China imports between 2 million to 3 million tons of Australian barley, considered the best, as domestic production can not meet quality requirement of breweries.

India was not in Trump’s hit list of countries over trade but still had tariffs imposed

India’s trade surplus with US was minor compared to China, Japan and Mexico. But Trump slapped steel, aluminium tariffs & withdrew GSP benefits.

Global toymaker Hasbro to move production from China to India & Vietnam

Hasbro plans to expand production outside of China in favour of new plants in India and Vietnam.

Irritants that soured India-US ties — H-1B visa cap, Russian missiles & high tariffs

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s 3-day visit to New Delhi, starting Tuesday, may give India and US a chance to sort out some of the irritants in their ties.

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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.