U.S. President Donald Trump said India has proposed all relevant duties on goods imported from his country.

Trump said at an event in Doha that the Indian government “provided us with a deal that they are willing to literally see us without tariffs”.

India and the United States are currently negotiating a trade agreement.

Delhi has not commented on these remarks yet. The BBC has contacted the Ministry of Commerce of India.

No further details about the so-called transaction have been disclosed.

Trump spoke with business leaders in Doha, where he announced a series of deals between the United States and Qatar, including the Boeing Jets.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. president also said he had told Apple CEO Tim Cook not to expand production in India.

“I said I don’t want you to build in India,” Bloomberg quoted Trump as saying he had a conversation with Mr. Cook. He added that Apple will "raise its own production in the United States."

In a earnings call earlier this month, Apple had said it was moving most iPhone production from China to India, and Vietnam would be the main production center for items like iPad and Apple Watch.

President Trump's tariffs on Indian goods could reach up to 27% in April. During Trump's 90-day pause, Delhi is eager to negotiate a trade deal that ends on July 9.

Until recently, India's largest trading partner, the United States' total bilateral trade volume was US$190 billion (£143 billion).

Delhi has lowered tariffs on bourbon, motorcycles and some other U.S. products, but the U.S. has a $45 billion trade deficit with India, and Trump hopes to reduce it.

"As Trump always blamed India's high tariffs for the trade deficit, India could offer to make 90% of US exports tariff-free from day one, using a "zero-for-zero" approach - cutting tariffs on all goods except autos and agriculture. But the deal must ensure strict reciprocity, with both sides eliminating tariffs equally," says Ajay Srivastava, a Delhi-based trade expert.

Trump and Modi set their target for more than double the trade at $50 billion, but Delhi is unlikely to offer franchises in sectors such as agriculture involving deeper political sensitivities.

After years of skepticism, India has recently become more open to trade transactions.

Last week, it signed a trade agreement with the UK that would cut responsibilities in many protected sectors, such as whiskey and cars.

After nearly 16 years of negotiations, India also signed a $10 billion free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), four European countries that are not members of the EU.

The EU and India are also working to get this year's free trade agreement.

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