Trump’s comments came two weeks after Cook said his company made quarterly records in several countries, including India
US President Donald Trump addresses troops at the Al-Udeid air base southwest of Doha. Pic/AFP
US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that India has offered to drop all tariffs on American goods. Speaking at a business roundtable in Doha, Trump also said he had a “little problem” with Tim Cook, and he told the Apple CEO that he does not want him to build iPhones in India.
“I said to him, I am treating you very good. You are coming up with $500 billion, but now I hear you are building all over India. I don’t want you building in India. You can build in India, if you want to take care of India because India is one of the highest tariff nations in the world, so it is very hard to sell in India,” Trump said.
“They [India] have offered us a deal where basically they have agreed to charge us literally no tariffs. I said ‘Tim, we are treating you really good, we put up with all the plants you built in China for years. We are not interested in you building in India. India can take care of themselves’,” he added.
There has been no such announcement from India.
Trump’s comments came two weeks after Cook said his company made quarterly records in several countries, including India.
Trump visits US military base
US President Donald Trump on Thursday visited a US base installation at the centre of American involvement in the Middle East. Qatar’s al-Udeid Air Base was a major staging ground during the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also supported the recent US air campaign against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, though the strikes themselves came from two aircraft carriers in the region. The base houses some 8000 US troops, down from about 10,000 at the height of those wars.
‘Only two options for Iran’
President Donald Trump kept up pressure on Iran on Thursday, warning Tehran that a deal over its nuclear programme or potentially airstrikes are the only two solutions to the diplomatic impasse. “We’d like to see if we could solve the Iran problem in an intelligent way, as opposed to a brutal way. There’s only two: intelligent and brutal. Those are the two alternatives,” Trump said.
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