The TOI correspondent from Washington: Taking a cue from from MAGA Supremo Donald Trump‘s cussed stance on tariffs, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday signaled a hardening of US place on tariffs saying he anticipated India to say “sorry” and make a take care of the President after its companies understand they can not thrive with out the US market. Requested in a television interview about Trump’s social media submit that just about jettisoned India as a US companion following the SCO summit in Tianjin, Lutnick likened India’s place to that of Canada, which he mentioned had backed down from its adversarial “elbows up” stance to make a deal after realizing its economic system was tanking. “In a month or two months, I feel India goes to be on the desk, and so they’re gonna say they’re sorry, and they will attempt to make a take care of Donald Trump and it will likely be on Donald Trump’s desk how he desires to take care of Modi, and we go away that to him. That is why he is the president,” Lutnick mentioned suggesting New Delhi’s place was all bravado. Lutnick additionally warned India to “Cease shopping for Russian oil, cease being part of BRICS, and assist the USA and the greenback or face a 50% tariff.”Contending that India and China won’t be able to promote items to one another, he maintained that they may finally have to return to the US as a result of “it is our $30 trillion economic system that’s the shopper of the world… (and) everyone knows finally the shopper is all the time proper.”Characterizing India as “the vowel between Russia and China” (in BRICS), Lutnick mentioned “If that is who you need to be, go, be it… ….and let’s have a look at how lengthy this lasts.”