{"id":150467,"date":"2025-06-30T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150467"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:38:51","slug":"indian-officials-extend-us-visit-to-iron-out-trade-deal-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/06\/30\/indian-officials-extend-us-visit-to-iron-out-trade-deal-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian officials extend US visit to iron out trade deal, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Officials from India will extend their Washington visit to try to reach agreement on a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and address lingering concerns on both sides, two Indian government sources said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trade talks between India and the U.S. have hit roadblocks over disagreements on import duties for auto components, steel, and farm goods, ahead of Trump\u2019s July 9 deadline to impose reciprocal tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian delegation had been expected to conclude discussions by last Friday, but was staying on until at least Monday evening to iron out differences and move towards an agreement, officials said, declining to be named as the discussions are private.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are certain disagreements over opening up the agriculture and dairy sectors, though India has offered tariff concessions on 90% of tariff lines. A final call will be taken by the political leadership of the two countries,\u201d one of the government sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian delegation could stay for another one to two days if discussions continue,\u201d the second source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture and dairy are big red lines\u201d for India in its ongoing trade negotiations with the U.S., Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Financial Express newspaper in an interview published on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I\u2019d love to have an agreement, a big, good, beautiful one; why not?\u201d Sitharaman said, adding that an early conclusion of the trade deal would serve India better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump said last week that America was going to have a very big\u201d trade deal with India, but gave no details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8211; Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Officials from India will extend their Washington visit to try to reach agreement on a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and address lingering concerns on both sides, two Indian government sources said on Monday. Trade talks between India and the U.S. have hit roadblocks over disagreements on import duties for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}