The United States highlights India’s ‘burdensome’ requirements ahead of tariffs.

• The US has raised concerns over India’s increasing import-quality requirements, a significant trade barrier.
 • The Office of the US Trade Representative (UST) provided an encyclopedic list of foreign countries’ policies and regulations it deems as barriers.
 • Despite India’s openness to cutting tariffs on over half of US imports worth $23 billion, the US has concerns about some of India’s import requirements being unaligned and burdensome.
 • The UST report doesn’t specify if Trump’s April 2 tariff announcement will be considered in the findings.
 • India’s draft Digital Personal Data Protection Act could require personal data disclosure, restrict cross-border data transfer, and allow data localisation.