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U.S., India eye high-level talks as scope of a potential deal comes into focus

September 6, 2019 at 5:15 PM
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal spoke on Friday about a potential face-to-face meeting ahead of United Nations General Assembly meetings in late September, when the Trump administration hopes to announce a partial bilateral trade deal. The scope of the potential deal is wide-ranging, according to a source familiar with the discussions, covering issues the countries have been discussing and disputing for some time. The source said the U.S. is pushing India to open its...


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