President Donald Trump suggested he would impose increased tariffs on additional countries buying energy from Russia — including China — after saying earlier Tuesday that he would raise levies on Indian exports within 24 hours.

Indian experts believe the U.S. president is trying to gain short-term leverage in trade negotiations with New Delhi.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose higher tariffs on India very soon because the country does business with Russia. "We settled on 25% but I think I'm going to raise that very substantially over the next 24 hours,