India’s Goyal hopeful of concluding US trade deal after ‘fantastic’ progress

Panel discussion “Trade: Now what?” at the World Economic Forum 2022 in Davos

LONDON (Reuters) -India is making “fantastic” progress in trade talks with the United States, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal told Reuters on Thursday, adding he was very confident that India would get special treatment from President Donald Trump.

“We’re making fantastic progress with the United States, and I do hope we’ll be able to conclude a very consequential partnership,” Goyal said in an interview during a visit to London.

“What is important, is to get preferential market access over our competitors, our peers. And I’m very confident that India, having been the first country to start negotiating, will be given a special and preferred treatment.”

(Reporting by Alistair Smout, editing by Sachin Ravikumar)