New Delhi: The Donald Trump administration of the United States has issued an official notice on the fact that it will impose 25% tariffs on imports from India, nothing that these will take effect from 12.01 am Eastern Standard Time (9.30 am IST) on August 27, 2025.The notice is issued by the Department of Homeland Security through the US Customs and Border Protection.It solidifies the 25% tariffs that US president Trump had announced on India in apparent response to New Delhi’s purchase of Russian oil. The US has said that India’s purchase of oil from Russia fuels Russian war efforts against Ukraine. The White House has repeatedly claimed that these tariffs are with the view to end the Ukraine-Russia war.India is already subjected to a 25% tariff on its exports to the US, hiking the total up to 50%.Foreign secretary Vikram Misri has told reporters today that India and the US continue to remain in consultation.The notice’s title cites “threats” to the US by the “government of the Russian Federation”.It says that Executive Order 14066 of March 8, 2022, which pertains to “continued Russian Federation Efforts to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, prohibited, among other things, the import into the US of certain products of Russian origin, including crude oil, petroleum, and petroleum products”.The note says, “On August 6, 2025, after considering additional information received from various senior officials on, among other things, the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation with respect to the situation in Ukraine, the President found that the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066 continues and that the actions and policies of the Government of the Russian Federation continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”It notes that Trump, in an order on August 6, determined that it is necessary and appropriate to “impose an additional ad valorem rate of duty of 25 percent on imports of articles of India, which is directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil”.The US is India’s largest export market and third-largest trading partner, with a total trade volume of $130 billion – behind only the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at $161 billion and the European Union at $135 billion.Responding to the Trump administration’s notice, the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said that the hiked tariff on Indian goods is a matter of “grave concern” as it will “severely disrupt the flow of Indian goods to its largest export market”.Some 55% of India’s America-bound shipments – worth around $47-48 billion – now stand exposed to pricing disadvantages between 30% and 35%, making them uncompetitive in comparison to goods from China and Southeast Asian countries, FIEO president S.C. Ralhan said in a note.Textiles and apparel makers in Tiruppur, Noida and Surat “have halted production amid worsening cost competitiveness”, and the seafood culturing sector stares at “stockpile losses, disrupted supply chains and farmer distress”, the FIEO noted.Ralhan urged the government to provide immediate relief in the form of a “push for interest subvention schemes”, as well as export credit support buttressed by cheap, easily available credit especially for MSMEs “with support from banks and financial institutions”.Some categories of goods are not subject to the new tariff. These includeshipments already in transit before August 27, if they enter before September 17, 2025.humanitarian donations (food, medicine, clothing).informational materials (books, films, CDs, news wires, artworks).certain industrial products (iron/steel, aluminium, copper, passenger vehicles, auto parts) already covered under other U.S. tariff programmesgoods covered by previous trade measures (Executive Order 14257).So far, pharmaceutical goods and phones are also exempt from the tariffs.This article was updated to include quotes from the FIEO’s note.