New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- India's textile and apparel exports face significant strain due to United States tariffs, with approximately 30 per cent of the sector's trade currently in doubt.

Speaking to ANI in an interview, Chandrima Chatterjee, Secretary General of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), presented these concerns, noting that while exporters previously managed the impact through rate negotiations, pessimism is now affecting the January-March quarter.

"But this quarter, that is January, March, is where the pessimism is now finally seeping in, because in that quarter....there was a lot more hope that we are going to break through the India-US negotiations....since that has not happened, there is some more pessimism ...