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Will Trump's move to deny India duty free exports work? Here's a shiny clue

In expelling India, the largest GSP beneficiary, Trump is making a declaration: While its trade relationship with New Delhi may not be as frayed as it is with Beijing, it's certainly fraught

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Manila: President Donald Trump, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during a bilateral meeting at the ASEAN Summit at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, in Manila, Philippines | Photo: AP/PTI

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg
President Donald Trump has decided that India’s failure to provide “equitable and reasonable” access to its market means it’s no longer eligible to export certain goods duty-free to the US. 

The 43-year-old US Generalized System of Preferences, the privilege India now loses, is part of a shared commitment by developed countries to promote export-oriented growth in emerging economies. Washington also has a long history of using it to make trading partners fall in line.

The most high-profile case is Chile in the 1980s. Once the US cut the nation’s duty-free access under GSP, support for General Augusto Pinochet’s repressive regime

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