India, US make "positive progress" on trade pact, India says

India and the United States have made "positive progress" in their negotiations last week to clinch a bilateral trade agreement, the Indian government said in a statement on Tuesday.
Officials from the two countries discussed the path for concluding the first tranche of a mutually beneficial trade pact by the fall of 2025, India's commerce ministry said.
(Reporting by Tanvi Mehta; Editing by YP Rajesh)

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