Can India dodge the fallout of US-China trade war and decoupling push?

With poor localization efforts, New Delhi desperately needs concessions from Trump

Ritesh Kumar Singh

June 9, 2025 05:05 JST

A customer looks at curtains at a market in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on May 11. India's excessive raw material protectionism forces Indian manufacturers and exporters to either source fabrics from China or lose export sales. © Reuters

Ritesh Kumar Singh is founder and chief executive of policy research at Indonomics Consulting in New Delhi.

Amid the intensifying trade and tech war between China and the U.S. -- unleashed by President Donald Trump's tariff brinkmanship -- the U.S. is directly and indirectly pressuring its trade partners to decouple from Chinese supply chains.