Kerala Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal has warned that Kerala needs to prepare well to tackle the ‘tariff war’ looming over the economy, propelled by the recent tariff policies of the United States and other global players.
Mr. Balagopal was speaking after inaugurating a two-day seminar ‘Post-COVID Development Challenges and Response: Kerala through the lens of State budgets’ organized by the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday (August 5, 2025).












