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

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