Donald Trump's trade access averted India-Pakistan War, US claims in legal filing

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump

For the first time, the US has put on record that it was President Donald Trump’s trade access offer that ‘averted’ the India-Pakistan war.

In a court submission on May 23, the US government said that the May 10 ‘ceasefire’ was possible ‘only after’ Trump offered ‘trading access’ to India and Pakistan. It should be noted that India has summarily rejected all ceasefire claims made by Trump and his administration that US mediated for a truce between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

The legal filing was submitted in the US Court of International Trade during a case against the US President and bunch of his departments over the raft of tariffs introduced on April 2nd last month. Data shows that US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and three other officials of the administration had made the on-record submission to the us Court of International Trade on May 23.

The case says that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was used unlawfully to announced the additional levies on around clutch of nations. The federal court ruled that Trump ‘overstepped’ his authority to impose the tariffs.

However, the Trump administration immediately appealed against the decision. This has left the companies and aggrieved nations in state of confusion. Nobody is sure what’s the status of import duties in days to comes.