Trump India visit news: Yet to finalise trade deal with India: White House – The Economic Times

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, who has been negotiating a trade deal with India, is not travelling with Trump on the India trip. In fact, he had cancelled his earlier trip to India as well.

“We continue to talk to our Indian colleagues about addressing these market access barriers. Our trade teams, led by the USTR, have been in touch with their counterparts over the past several weeks. That engagement will continue,” the official said.

“The trade and economic relationship with India is critically important to the United States, and I think also access to the United States market is critical to the Indian government. We do want to make sure that we get this balance right. We want to address a bunch — a lot of concerns, and we’re not quite there yet,” the official said in response to a question.
— Read on economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/yet-to-finalise-trade-deal-with-india-white-house/articleshow/74252714.cms

Critically important because Apple has at least one plant in India. Why won’t Lighthizer even go to India?! 🤔💭

Modi-Trump Summit in Ahmedabad: From defence to economy, biggest takeaways from US president’s first visit to India

The bad news is that India and the US won’t be signing the limited Free Trade Agreement many had hoped for. They’ve chosen, instead, to work on something far bigger: a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, that will encompass not just duty-free trade of merchandise, but also free movement of professionals and easier investment norms.
The deal will take time of hammer out, because of its enormous complexity, but when it’s done, it should be a game-changer.
— Read on www.firstpost.com/india/modi-trump-summit-in-ahmedabad-from-defence-to-economy-biggest-takeaways-from-us-presidents-first-visit-to-india-8073241.html

 

Free trade for India, but not for anyone else?!

Donald Trump claims 10 million people to welcome him in Ahmedabad; officials say total population of city around 7 million

Donald Trump has made yet another tall claim about the size of the crowd that will welcome him in Ahmedabad, saying Narendra Modi has told him that there will 10 million people to greet him on his arrival for his maiden visit to India.
— Read on www.firstpost.com/india/donald-trump-claims-10-million-people-to-welcome-him-in-ahmedabad-officials-say-total-population-of-city-around-7-million-8070641.html

“The authorities believe that between one to two lakh people are expected to line up along the 22-km route of the roadshow by Modi and Trump from the airport to the Motera cricket stadium.”

1 lakh = 100,000