Washington DC, June 4 -- Senior Adviser and Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Richard M Rossow, said the US's tariff approach looks "wobbly" to a lot of our partners.

"Some of the tariff lashes have been applied globally or to large groups of countries. Probably the only area of very specific exception was the original Russia oil-related tariffs that hit India particularly hard... India has a lot of non-tariff barriers: quality control orders and price controls and domestic manufacturing mandates. So the President's inclination to try to get a little more parity in how we approach friends on trade, he wasn't wrong. Just this kind of approach and using tools that could...