SKM protests US economic embargo, calls for resistance against tariffs on India
The fresh order raises total US tariffs to 50%, which the SKM deems 'intolerable' and describes as an economic embargo on the Indian people by the world's leading imperialist power.
The European Union and the US have been buying goods from Russia. The US import from Russia is on the rise, as in the case of palladium (37%), uranium (28%), and fertilisers (21%). China and the EU have imported more from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.
As per the data of Aug 2, the oil import of India from Russia is 1.30 lakh million Euros, which is less than China's import of Russian oil worth 1.90 lakh million Euros, but the US tariffs on China are only 30%, stated SKM.
The SKM members said the US is abusing its economic and military might to impose an unjust and chaotic world order, thus targeting India. "India cannot surrender its sovereignty to please the USA. We cannot be made to suffer from high oil prices.
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The basic issue of the US is to open the Indian economy, especially agriculture, fisheries, and dairy, for its giant agribusiness corporations and MNCs. However, India cannot ditch the interests of the farming community.
The workforce dependent on agriculture in India is 48%, while in the USA, it is only 2.6%," they said.
The SKM demanded a parliamentary review of negotiations held so far on FTAs, including the Indo-UK FTA, aiming to protect the rights of farmers and workers.
It has called upon the farmers, workers, and all the people to rally against the US's move, even urging agriculturalists to burn the effigy of US President Donald Trump in all villages across the country.
The farmers' organisation has called for a larger mobilisation for the already announced joint worker-farmer protest on Aug 13, marking the 83rd anniversary of the Quit India Movement, with the slogan: 'MNCs Quit India, Corporates Quit Agriculture'.
BOX: SAD leader supports Modi govt's stand on India-US tariff row
Jalandhar: Former MP and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Naresh Gujral has not only supported the stand taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the US President Donald Trump's tariff salvo but has also urged all the political parties to back the govt on this critical issue.
"India-US relations were strengthening over the past couple of decades under successive govts in India.
However, the recent developments regarding punitive tariffs on our exports to the US have strained our relations considerably. Trump's illogical demand that India should stop buying oil or trade with Russia smacks of hypocrisy, particularly when many other countries like China, the EU, and the US itself have been trading with Russia," Gujral said in a statement issued on Thursday.
"I am glad that the PM took a very firm stand on the issue and made it absolutely clear that India will protect its national interest and will not allow any other country to interfere in our independent foreign policy," said Gujral, a two-time former Rajya Sabha member of the SAD and son of late former PM Inder Kumar Gujral.
He added, "I would urge all the political parties to support the govt on this critical issue so that a strong message goes out to the world that our independent foreign policy will not be compromised irrespective of the price that we have to pay."
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