US Tariffs, Layoffs, and Loss: A Mother’s Grief Amid the Diamond Industry Crisis

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When the US President Donald Trump raised additional import tariffs on India taking the total to 50%, the impact rippled across Surat’s diamond industry, causing production cuts, job losses, and mental health crises. Among the victims was 22-year-old Kewalbhai, who died by suicide after losing his job. His mother, Divyaben Makwana, never heard about the tariff policy, only the tragedy it brought. This story reveals the human cost of global trade decisions on India’s working-class families.  00:00 – 00:18 | Forty Years in the Trade 00:29 – 00:51 | The World’s Diamond Hub 01:20 – 01:51 | Factories Without Buyers 02:13 – 02:25 | When Crisis Deepens 02:26 – 02:43 | Ten Workers, No Wages 02:47 – 03:19 | Tariffs and Wars 03:23 – 03:28 | Suicides of the Forgotten 03:32 – 03:35 | If Exports Fall, Hope Falls 04:39 – 05:08 | A Personal Loss  Follow us: Website: https://www.outlookindia.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Outlookindia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outlookindia/ X: https://twitter.com/Outlookindia Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaNrF3v0AgWLA6OnJH0R Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OutlookMagazine Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/outlookindia  #diamonds #trumptariffs #surat

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00:00I've been 40 years old.

00:03I've been 40 years old.

00:05But it's coming for 2-4 months.

00:08It's not like that.

00:10It was like the coronavirus.

00:12It's coming for youth and others.

00:14It's coming for 2-4 months.

00:16It's coming for 2-4 months.

00:18It's coming for 2 years.

00:20It's not like that.

00:22The diamond industry is the biggest industry in China.

00:30It's not like that.

00:325-4 months in the world.

00:3410-7 years ago.

00:369-7 pieces are made in Germany.

00:40It's becoming more than a new company.

00:46The diamond industry is the biggest industry in Mr. Mazat.

00:51This is how the Bidrāp ka Arthi Kantra goes on.

01:21We are in the diamond and we work with it.

01:24We also work with trading and buying.

01:27We work with all the money.

01:29We buy all the diamond and sell it.

01:34We sell it all.

01:36We sell it all.

01:38We sell it all.

01:41But we don't have demand for the money.

01:44We sell it all.

01:47We sell it all for the diamond.

01:51It has been a $75-80.

01:55I think that the university is a great place.

02:01This is the university of the city.

02:04The university is a great place.

02:09The university is a great place.

02:12It's a great place to grow.

02:14It's a great place to be around the city.

02:17We have to go to the city.

02:20There will be a lot of money coming, then we will have to go into the rooms.

02:25In my office, there are four or ten workers in my office.

02:29If we don't get a daily routine, we won't get a daily routine.

02:33If we get a daily routine, we will get a daily routine.

02:37This is very difficult for us.

02:39There are small people, small people who don't get paid.

02:43They have been unemployed.

02:45The tariffs that Donald Trump and the U.S. have already been 25%.

02:53After the 27th of August, the tariffs that have been put on a daily routine,

02:58it will be a direct effect of our diamond workers.

03:01For the two years, the mandate has already been going.

03:04For Ukraine and Russia, for Israel and Palestine,

03:09and for export.

03:12For the two years, the G7-10 has been sentient on the Russian diamond workers.

03:19For this crisis, the diamond workers have been exposed to the crisis.

03:23For the past few years, more people have died from the 80s.

03:29So, it doesn't grow.

03:32If the tariffs came, the exports will be less.

03:35If the exports will be less, then the production will be less.

03:39For the last few years, the vast majority of the people have already been a numerous war.

03:46The first pair, the mister, the market, the losses.

03:49The next pair, the two-year-old in the past.

03:52The fourth pair, the vest in the past.

03:54The third pair was in the present of G7-10,

03:56The number to look down at the number.

03:57The first pair of nickels, theSofti Golds, a small pair of crosses.

04:00The second pair is very clear.

04:02From the country with the last pair, a small pair of Dansh.

04:04How did you grow up with your children?

04:11I grew up with three children.

04:15There was also a girl.

04:17There were two girls.

04:19She was in my home.

04:21She didn't get away from her.

04:24She didn't get away from her.

04:26She got away from her.

04:28She got away from her.

04:30We were at home.

04:32She got away from her.

04:34She was Going to get away from the rest of my life.

04:36Then she went from the rest of the crisis.

04:38She didn't get away from her.

04:40Then she went from the rest of the bathroom.

04:42We went from the rest of the bathroom.

04:44She did leave a bathroom with her.

04:46They said,

04:48how much of the работу has been taken from the hospital.

04:50She was at home.

04:52She asked,

04:53how much money won't pay.

04:55Then I asked her.

04:56She went from the hospital,

04:58she went into the office.

04:59He said,

05:01We went to civil, and we stayed for 2-3 hours, and we stayed for his date at 4 o'clock at 4 o'clock.

05:08We reached there from 2 o'clock to 5 o'clock, and at 4 o'clock, we stayed for 4 o'clock.

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