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US Trade uncertainties to impact growth in Asian nations, including India: Moody's

15 Apr 2025 Evaluate

Moody's Ratings in its latest report has said that uncertainties around the US trade policy will undermine business confidence and consumer sentiment, adversely impacting growth in Asian nations, including India. US President Donald Trump has postponed by three months the imposition of reciprocal tariffs, with the exception of China on whom a 125 per cent tariff has been slapped. However, a 10 per cent additional duty on exports to the US will continue. Moody's Analytics, another Moody's firm, had last week cut India's growth forecast for the 2025 calendar year to 6.1 per cent in 2025 from 6.4 per cent projected in February. 

Moody's Ratings Senior Vice President, Credit Strategy & Guidance, Nicky Dang has said that an escalation of US-Sino tensions and the spillover effects from a slowdown in China pose significant downside risks to the (Asian) region's growth prospects. She said economies with large domestic markets, such as India, may benefit from companies seeking access to these markets but any major shift in investment flows would occur over several years. 

Dang said the tariff pause mitigates the negative impact of the additional tariffs on the region's trade and growth. However, economies in the region still face considerable downside risk due to an additional 10 per cent universal tariffs and their high direct and indirect exposures to the US. Furthermore, the additional tariffs on Chinese exports, which were not included in the pause, exert further pressure on China's growth. She added that the tariff pause does not reverse the trend of de-globalisation but increases trade policy uncertainty, as the Trump administration's goal of reshoring manufacturing supply chains to the US remains unchanged.



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