{"id":39598,"date":"2019-06-03T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39598"},"modified":"2019-06-03T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:22:24","slug":"us-friction-with-india-risks-alienating-a-key-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39598","title":{"rendered":"US friction with India risks alienating a key ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN Business)<\/cite>The United States has been tightening the screws on several allies in an escalating global trade battle. India is its latest target. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">President Donald Trump on Friday announced the South Asian country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/01\/politics\/trump-india-trade-status\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">removal from a special trade program<\/a>, saying it had &#8220;not assured the United States that India will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets.&#8221; The program, known as the Generalized System of Preferences, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/05\/economy\/india-us-trade\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">exempted Indian goods<\/a> worth more than $6 billion from import duties in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/row\/IF10384.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to the Congressional Research Service.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s at stake, and why the two countries still need each other.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN Business)The United States has been tightening the screws on several allies in an escalating global trade battle. India is its latest target. President Donald Trump on Friday announced the South Asian country&#8217;s removal from a special trade program, saying it had &#8220;not assured the United States that India will provide equitable and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}