Washington toi correspondent: Taking into account that both the president of the United States, Donald Trump and the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, are abstemious, may not be in the spirit of things to make alcohol part of the commercial dispute between the two countries. But Trump’s White House marked the New Delhi tariffs on the American Bourbon, which represents a mission of the general exports of the United States, as a controversial problem at a time when the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that no level of alcohol consumption is safe for health.
Ignoring the reduction of the duty of India in the American Bourbon from 150 percent to 100 percent just before the visit of February 13 of Modi to Washington, Trump’s spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, insisted on Tuesday that 150 percent of India on US alcohol is useless, even when the president of the United States was out of Tesla, which is also generating in the India rate for its disappearance of an advantage of a prospective.
“Look at India, 150 percent of the US alcohol rate. Do you think that is helping Kentucky Bourbon to export to India? I don’t think so,” Leavitt was triggered in the informative session of Wh Press, taking out what he called a “practical list” of fees imposed by several US countries.
“President Trump believes in reciprocity and it is the time when we have a president who really seeks the interests of US companies and workers,” Leavitt smoked, even when Trump’s erratic rates policy that changes for the day has caused agitation in global markets.
Leavitt also seemed not to take note of the reduction of tariffs that are very publicized from India in Bourbon from 150 percent to 50 percent, with an additional tax of 50 percent, which reduces the general duty to 100 percent. Much of the great seemed to involve internal politics where Kentucky, the source of the American bourbon and a solid red republican state, has a Democratic governor who defeated a candidate with Trump’s support in the Governor’s elections of 2023.
India is an unfortunately small market in mini-millions for American spirits, which represents only around $ 2.2 billion, of approximately $ 3 billion of US global exports, with Europe as the main American alcohol market. American whiskeys represent 63 percent of all exports of US spirits. UU., Reach $ 1.4 billion in 2023.
But known for its fried chicken, Kentucky wants to complement it with Bourbon to India, a mustaches loving country that is said to drink more Scottish than that made in Scotland, mainly national imitations. The Republican legislators of Kentucky eager to advance in the state’s economy and keep it solidly red have taken note of the decrease in the tasks of India in Bourbon, but that is inappropriate for the White House.
“Great victory for the characteristic Kentucky bourbon industry! Due to the leadership of President Trump, India is reducing tariff early morning”.
But for a white house poisoned with the possibility that the United States is richer, that is not enough. He wants India to drink more, no matter that WHO alcohol is a carcinogen of group 1 that also includes asbestos, radiation and tobacco.
