US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to visit India this week for key trade talks with Piyush Goyal
The United States announced on Monday that their Trade Representative, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, would be visiting India this week to meet with Commerce Minister Piyush
The United States announced on Monday that their Trade Representative, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, would be visiting India this week to meet with Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and other senior Indian officials to discuss the India-US Joint Statement and the Interim Agreement, which are part of the larger Bilateral Trade Agreement negotiations between the two countries. "This week, Ambassador Greer will travel to India to meet with Union Minister Piyush Goyal and other senior Indian officials to discuss the historic U.S.–India Joint Statement and the Interim Agreement as part of the broader U.S.-India Bilateral Trade Agreement negotiations: United States Trade Representative," the US Trade Representative said in a post on social media platform X.
This development comes in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump meeting on the sidelines of the G-7 meeting in France last week. It was post that meeting that Trump revealed India and the US were close to finalising their trade agreement. Trump, during a media interaction with Modi, called the Indian prime minister a tough negotiator and spoke on their personal rapport. The meeting between Goyal and Greer will also happen on the heels of the negotiator-level discussions which were held between the two sides on 2-4 June in New Delhi.
Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal had earlier said that the discussions between the two senior leaders are expected to be centred around giving final touches to the framework of the trade agreement. On June 5, Goyal said India and the US are moving towards closing all the open ends of the interim trade agreement, and both sides are likely to execute the "very, very vibrant" first phase of the BTA by the middle of next month. Following the trip to India, Greer will travel to Uzbekistan, where he will meet President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Head of the Presidential Administration Saida Mirziyoyeva, and Deputy Prime Minister Jamshid Khodjaev.
Greer's discussions in Uzbekistan will focus on achieving fair, balanced, and reciprocal trade with the US.
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