Trump tells India to stop 'dumping rice' on US or face new tariffs

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 09 December 2025 07:40 EST


Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on India for “dumping” rice in the U.S., piling pressure on a major economic and strategic partner. The threatened levy would be on top of the 50 percent import tariff that Washington put on the South Asian country earlier this year.

Trump’s comments came while responding to complaints that imports from India and other Asian countries were damaging American producers during a meeting at the White House with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, lawmakers, and farmers.

The President unveiled a $12bn aid package for U.S. farmers amid mounting pressure over rising consumer prices and persistent inflation, attributed in no small part to his sweeping tariffs on major world economies.

Analysts say voter dissatisfaction over rising prices can severely damage the prospects of Trump’s Republican party ahead of next year’s mid-term elections.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/asia/india/donald-trump-india-rice-tariff-modi-b2880847.html

[Irish_Dem]

1. India not offering him a big enough bribe?

[kimbutgar]

2. Asian and Indian rice tastes so much better than American rice

I’m not an Asian person and I can taste the difference !

[hlthe2b]

3. Screw you, Trump. Indian rice has far less arsenic than US rice--even Californian...

I eat Indian brown basmati exclusively. F.K. you, Trump!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I bought two 20-lb. bags of Royal basmati rice the last timre I was at Walmart.

Is that stuff great.

[Permanut]

5. But first let's all read in the Constitution..

Article I, Section 8, the Commerce Clause - just to refresh our memories about who is in charge of tariffs.

On second thought, never mind.

[twodogsbarking]

6. Possibly Trump has no idea where rice comes from or how it is grown.

Possibly...........

[twodogsbarking]

7. Link to stats ........

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/

[DBoon]

8. so Trump wants higher tariffs on the most basic staple food item?

What next? Will he increase tariffs on imported red beans and make red beans and rice unaffordable?

[tavernier]

15. Fine with me.

Can’t stand either one.
3 things to get rid of: rice, beans, Trump

[twodogsbarking]

9. Appeasing the rice producing states of which the top five of six are red. Hmmm.

Half of US rice production gets exported. It is global market that escapes Trump.

[IronLionZion]

10. India buys a lot of food from the US

We want them to keep buying grains, lentils, beans, nuts, etc. from our farmers, right?

[angryxyouth]

11. That should help food prices

What happened to open markets and price competition? Rice prices have been out of hand! Arborio prices have finally started to come down at one point it was $16 for 32oz of riceselect but it has come down to about $9. $5 for generic which is finally available again. before Covid, it was $3. If you want to save American jobs from India, do something about the call centers and all the other jobs lost to cheaper tech labor.

[cstanleytech]

12. We're not even a top 10 rice producer so I'm not sure what the problem is to be honest with having cheap rice.

Unless it's pissing off Trump that people can still barely afford some type of food.

[Botany]

14. He is clueless and his mind is so shot he works from the last input into his brain.

So some American rice grower tells him that it is cheap rice from India that is hurting their
sales so he goes after India instead of his half baked tariffs and other shit that was his fault.
In the good old days we had a U.S.D.A., local extension services, and some of the best farmers
in the world working to make high quality products that there was a demand for in America and
world wide and the USAID bought tons of American rice to help the poor in Africa and Asia too.

BTW America can grow some damn fine rice.

[NickB79]

13. God forbid we get cheap rice in the US!

At the rate we're going, beans and rice were all we'd be able to afford in the near future, and now Trump wants to put the kabosh on that too.

[Smackdown2019]

16. Rice???

So, let me get this straight... india is shipping rice half way around the world through a salty ocean and into the heartland of America??? When we are like the number one producer of Rice?

Someone must of sent trump a box of Rice A Roni...

[Jack Valentino]

17. Does this mean that India has been driving the price of rice down in the U.S. ??

Possibly I should make a "stock up" run on rice right now,
but I don't eat enough of it....

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Better strategy -- provoke them into dumping some somosas next. With a selection of chutneys. nt

[sakabatou]

19. "Who should I put a tariff on next?"

*spins random wheel*

"And the reason?"

*spins different random wheel*

[Figarosmom]

20. I only buy Indian or Mexican rice.

Just tastes better.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. You could try Thai Jasmine rice too

which is something I also get.

[A Badger]

21. PBS's show 'America's Test Kitchen' agrees with me--

US-produced basmati rice pretty much sucks.

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. But, not a word to any of the importers who are making loads from their imports.

Just to the people who are growing the product.

I know that the orange gibbon is an idiot but this is a new low. Blaming the creators for the fact that the importers are the ones bringing the rice to this country. I doubt that the Indian nation is now creating covert ways to sneak the product into the country, like a freaking drug run or something.

But, he is still sitting in the Oval Office and his cronies are still doing his bidding without interference, so...