Modi Appears to Cave to Trump, Agrees to Buy Venezuela Oil in Place of Russia’s, End Tariffs on US Agriculture

Yours truly is not an expert on the subcontinent, so perhaps I am missing something critical. However, I am mystified over what looks like Modi knuckling under to Trump over his tariff threats. Modi’s concessions look even more unjustified given that the odds are good that the Supreme Court will nix Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. The Administration already lost to a challenge filed in the Court of International Trade that was affirmed by the appellate bench. The short version of the argument is that the statute requires that there be a…