India plans to impose retaliatory tariffs on nearly 30 products imported from the US. These products include walnuts, chickpeas and chemical goods. The move will impose an additional tariff burden of $290 million on US imports. These tariffs were initially planned to be enforced last year after the US increased duties on steel and aluminium imports .

While the removal of trade benefits under the GSP programme was predicted to hurt nearly $5.6 billion worth of Indian exports, India‘s commerce secretary Anup Wadhawan has stated that the damage would be minimal, impacting only few of the trade benefits. India’s tariffs on the US could go into effect from April 1, 2019.