Outlook Magazine - The Tariff Weapon - 01 September 2025 Issue

The September 1st, issue of Outlook Magazine arrives at a critical moment in India’s economic story. With President Donald Trump announcing that tariffs on Indian exports to the United States will rise to 50 per cent, the ripple effects are already visible across industries and regions. The impact will be geopolitical, but as the stories in our cover, ‘The Tariff Weapon’, will show, the scale of disruption in trade also needs to account for the human stories behind it. KA Shaji reports from the shrimp belt of Andhra Pradesh (and Digha), where export-quality produce now languishes in ponds and cold storage as the United States buyers grow shy of Indian imports. Ishfaq Naseem travels through Kashmir’s orchards to document walnut and apple growers whose fortunes depend almost entirely on the United States. NK Bhoopesh, with inputs from Jinit Parmar in Surat, brings us to Tiruppur and Coimbatore, where textile exporters face the harsh maths of tariff hikes. Read these and more in Outlook's latest issue.