U.S. may scrap penal tariff on India, cut reciprocal tariff, India chief econ adviser says


India's Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran attends a news conference in New Delhi, India, January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/ File Photo

MUMBAI (Reuters) -The U.S. may soon scrap the penal import tariff on Indian goods and could also cut reciprocal tariff to 10-15% from existing 25%, India's Chief Economist Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday.

"My personal confidence is that in the next couple of months, if not earlier, we will see a resolution to at least to the extra penal tariff of 25%," Nageswaran said at a event in Kolkata.

"It may also be the case that reciprocal tariff may come down to the level, which we were earlier anticipating somewhere between 10% and 15%."

(Reporting by Swati Bhat; editing by Sudipto Ganguly)

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