President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs against trading partners raise import taxes on friends, foes, and uninhabited islands, leaving trade experts guessing the strategy behind them.

The US administration released an encyclopedic list of foreign countries' policies and regulations it claimed as trade barriers on Monday, two days before its proposed reciprocal tariffs. The so-called trade barriers report is nothing but a blatant tool for the US administration to justify its tariff policies including the proposed upcoming reciprocal tariffs and a false pretext for pushing US protectionist policies,

The administration has not identified all the alleged barriers of its partners, as Trump claimed, but only divides the trade deficit of each country by the total of imports.. When on Wednesday afternoon Donald Trump,

Economists and legal experts question how the strongest economy in the world can be facing a national emergency over the trade deficit.

While announcing the tariffs at an event held at the White House, Trump presented a chart claiming that India imposes 52 per cent tariffs on US goods, which includes currency manipulation

The US Trade Representative has criticized India for frequent internet shutdowns which are barriers for digital trade like exports.

BMW and Mercedes-Benz in India call for more free trade agreements, highlighting that low tariffs and reduced trade barriers would benefit all. This follows the US imposing 27% reciprocal tariffs on India,

Governments around the world pledged counter measures on the U.S. after President Donald Trump unveiled on Wednesday a new baseline 10% tariff on goods from all countries plus reciprocal tariffs on those that his administration says have high barriers to U.