India now offers 'no tariffs' to US: Trump

INDIA KILLS THE US with tariffs and the country has now offered "no tariffs" to America, President Donald Trump has said, amid New Delhi's escalating tensions with Washington over his administration's policies on trade and tariffs.

- YOSHITA SINGH New York/Washington,

"They have tariffs against us. China, which kills us with tariffs. India kills us with tariffs. Brazil kills us" with tariffs, Trump said in a telephone interview with The Scott Jennings Radio Show on Tuesday.

Trump added that he understands tariffs better than other countries.

"I understood tariffs better than any human being in the world. And now with my tariffs, they were all dropping them. India was the most highly tariffed nation... And you know what, they've offered me no tariffs in India anymore. No tariffs," Trump said.