President Donald Trump calls India the ‘Tariff King,’ pointing to the steep duties we impose on farm imports.
The United States wants greater access for its apples, chicken, dairy, even genetically modified crops. India, on the other hand, argues it cannot compromise the livelihoods of millions of small farmers.
Have both sides created an impasse in their ongoing trade negotiations?
Is India missing the woods for the trees? Focusing on protection, instead of making Indian farming competitive.
To answer all these vexing questions and more StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Ashok Gulati on Capital Calculus. He is an agricultural economist, former chairman of Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices and Professor at Icrier, a Delhi-based think tank.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.
