‘Countries need to ‘react correctly’ to the U.S.’, Lutnick says about India and others

The U.S. needed to “fix” certain countries like India, Switzerland and Brazil, in terms of their trading relationships with America, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said. He said the countries needed to “ react correctly” to the U.S. and stop taking actions that were harmful to the U.S.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff rate on India , including a 25% ‘penalty’ for India’s trade in oil with Russia.

“We have a bunch of countries to fix…like Switzerland, Brazil…India, these are countries that need to really react correctly to America…open their markets, stop taking actions that harm America,” Mr Lutnick said in an interview to News Nation that aired on Sunday.

“ And that’s why we are off-sides with them,” he added.

Mr Trump, who has