We're very close to a deal with India: President Donald Trump
New York/Washington, Jul 16 (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Washington is “very close” to a trade deal with India.
“We're very close to a deal with India, where they open it up,” Trump said in the Oval Office while talking to reporters during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
“We've made deals with a lot of great places… We have another one coming up maybe with India. I don't know, we're in negotiation. When I send out a letter, that's a deal,” Trump said.
A day earlier, Trump had said that America will have access to the Indian market as a trade deal with the country is being worked on.
“We will have full access into Indonesia, and we have a couple of those deals that are going to be announced. India basically is working along that same line. We're going to have access into India,” he said.
“And you have to understand, we had no access into any of these countries. Our people couldn't go in. And now we're getting access because of what we're doing with the tariffs,” Trump added, while talking to reporters as he departed the White House en route to Pittsburgh.
India and the US have been holding negotiations for the trade pact primarily to keep the tariffs below 20 per cent.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
