Modi, progress progress in higher tariffs in Vance trading talks

India and the United States are advancing in negotiations with the bilateral trade agreement, and the Countries said after a meeting between Vice President JD Vance in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi.

Vance is currently in four days Visit to India with his wife and three children.

“Trade, technology, defense, energy and people exchange, including mutually beneficial cooperation,” Modi ” wrote in x After the meeting on Monday night. He also accepted a dinner for Vance and his family in the residence.

India is among a number of countries in connection with trade deals during President Donald Trump’s presidency 90-day break In higher fares ending on July 9.

India was appointed Face 27% US Tariffs Before the break is announced. Since then, Delhi and Washington work with the early opinion of trade talks.

Modi and Trump shares hot individual connection – Indian prime minister was among the first global leaders Visit Trump After starting the second term. However, the US president has repeatedly targeted the high tariffs of India, the “king of tariffs” and trade relations “a great operator” brand.

In the statement given Monday after Vance’s meeting, the US trade representative Jamieson Greer underlined “Lack of interaction in trade relations with India.”

India has cut tariffs for a number of goods in the last few months, and it is reported that the Trump has taken into account the wider variable cuts. But as sectors agriculture – Washington wants more access to him, but India protects him violently – still collect points.

In addition to trade, both leaders discussed According to the Office of Modi, cooperation in the field of defense, strategic technologies and energy.

The Prime Minister of India also said he was pleasing to Trump to India this year. Delhi hosts four summits at the end of this year and the US President is expected to participate in this.

The bilateral meeting was hosted by the delegation-level negotiations and Modi.

Vance came on Monday with India, his wife, USA and three children. Usha Vance’s parents moved to the United States from the southern province of Andhra Pradesh, and in some media said that they were eager to introduce their children’s children to Indian heritage.

Photographs of three children wearing Indian styles – Three-year-old Mirabel, who wore two boys and a Lehenga in Kurta-pajamas, leaped three-year-old Mirabel India newspapers and websites.

The remaining Vance’s visit is mainly personal. After meeting with Modi, the family went to Jaipur, where they visited the historian date of Fort. Vancance is expected to provide a speech on US-Indian relations in Jaipur.

The family is also built to visit the National Tac Maha in Agra on Wednesday before flying the next day.

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