'India kills us with tariffs, offered me zero-levy deal now': Donald Trump amid trade war with New Delhi

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

He claimed that India started dropping the tariffs only after the US imposed a tax on New Delhi.

Labelling India as the "most highly tariffed nation," he said,  "And you know what, they've offered me no tariffs in India anymore. No tariffs."

The US President went on to justify why tariffs are important.

"If I didn't have tariffs, they would never make that offer. They would never make that offer. So you have to have tariffs. We're going to be economically strong," he said.

However, this is not the first time Trump has made this claim.

On Monday, he said that the business relationship between the two countries had been "totally one-sided".

He declared that it was a "one-sided disaster" and now that India has offered to cut down the tariffs, he said "it's getting late".

"They have now offered to cut their tariffs to nothing, but it's getting late. They should have done so years ago," Trump had posted on Truth Social.

The Trump administration has imposed 25 percent reciprocal tariffs on India and an additional 25 percent on Russian oil purchases, bringing the total duties imposed on India to 50 percent, among the highest in the world.

Trump has accused India of supporting Moscow's war on Ukraine by purchasing Russian oil.

However, he did not impose tougher sanctions on Russia itself.