INDIA Trade Minister Piyush Goyal will visit Washington tomorrow to accelerate talks on a long-pending trade deal, following recent progress in negotiations resumed last week.
“The delegation plans to take forward the discussions with a view to achieve early conclusion of a mutually beneficial trade agreement,” an official statement said yesterday.
On September 16, a US delegation led by Brendan Lynch, Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asia, met Indian trade officials headed by chief negotiator Rajesh Agrawal in New Delhi.
Trade discussions with US officials on Tuesday were “positive” and “forward-looking”, New Delhi said, after US President Donald Trump struck a more conciliatory tone following punitive tariffs on India over its Russian oil purchases.
But it was not immediately clear whether New Delhi would discuss the Trump administration’s H1B visa fee hike and the demand to cut Russian oil purchases, or open its agriculture and dairy sector for US companies, a major demand from Washington.
India’s exports to the US fell to $6.86 billion in August from $8.01bn in July, trade ministry data showed on Monday.
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