Representatives of the United States are ready to visit India on 25 August 2025 for the next round of negotiations on the proposed business agreement of India-USA, reported the PTI press agency on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, quoting officials who realized the development.
“The American team visits the sixth round of interviews,” the official told the news agency. He also mentioned that these two nations would continue to negotiate the interim trade agreement as close as the 1st August US President Donald Trump.
Trump’s tariffs on world nations will be stored on August 1, 2025 after the end of the period, which means that exports from India to the United States will witness the effect of 26 % of the tariff rate to the top of the existing 10 % of the basic obligation.
Tariffs in US-India
Indian and American delegations last week in Washington completed their fifth round of business interviews. The main negotiator of the Indian and special secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Rajesh Agrawal and the assistant of the US sales representative for South and Central Asia, Brendan Lynch, discussed the business agreement before the term of the tariffs.
According to the report, both nations seek to complete the interim trade agreement before the August date. The mutual tariffs were stored 2 April 2025 and should have taken effect from 9 July 2025. However, the time limit for imposing import obligations was later extended to 1 August 2025.
India-USA business negotiations
In her business negotiations with the US, India has hardened her position in the demand of American for imports for agriculture and dairy products. However, according to the agency’s report, the country has not given any limitation of import duty to these products.
The Association of Farmers throughout India also asked the government not to include any agriculture -related problems in the trade agreement.
The aim of India is to eliminate another 26 % of tariffs, along with a 50 % rate per steel and aluminum and 25 % of car tariffs. The nation also reserved its rights within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to impose retaliatory tariffs to the Western nation.
India also wants tariffs on textiles, gems and jewelry, leather goods, clothing, plastics, chemicals, shrimp, oil seeds, grapes and bananas.
The US is looking for tariffs for industrial goods, cars, especially electric vehicles, wines, petrochemical products, agricultural goods, dairy products, apples, tree nuts and genetically modified crops.
The report also quoted export data that showed that the total export of goods to the United States jumped in April-June 2025-26 fiscal year by 22.8 % to $ 25.51 billion.
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