{"id":21830,"date":"2026-06-14T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-india-to-tackle-trade-at-g7-but-deal-not-imminent-us-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T13:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:05:16","slug":"us-india-to-tackle-trade-at-g7-but-deal-not-imminent-us-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-india-to-tackle-trade-at-g7-but-deal-not-imminent-us-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"US, India to tackle trade at G7 but deal not imminent, US officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &ndash; US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will travel to India the week after the G7 leaders summit for further discussions on a possible trade deal, a senior US administration official said on Saturday (June 13), saying an agreement was possible.<\/p>\n<p>Trade would be discussed during President Donald Trump&rsquo;s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during next week&rsquo;s gathering in France, but no agreement on a trade deal was expected at the summit, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know that Prime Minister Modi is quite ambitious about the role he sees for India, the importance of the US-India relationship,&rdquo; the official told reporters. &ldquo;We think a potential trade deal is part of that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump would insist on reaching &ldquo;a very good deal,&rdquo; the official said, adding: &ldquo;We think a very good deal is possible. I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;ll close that deal at the G7.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Group of Seven summit, to be held June 15 to 17 in the French town of &#8203;Evian-les-Bains, will bring together leaders from the world&rsquo;s &#8288;major economies, including Trump, alongside &#8203;high-level delegations from other countries such as India.<\/p>\n<p>Ties between New Delhi and Washington have been strained by US tariffs on Indian goods and Trump&rsquo;s repeated assertions &ndash; which India denies &ndash; that he intervened to end India&rsquo;s brief conflict last year with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>But the mood has improved in recent weeks, and the country&rsquo;s trade minister, Piyush Goyal, last week said the first tranche of a bilateral trade agreement could be concluded by mid-July. India is pushing for preferential tariff treatment as part of negotiations on an interim trade deal.<\/p>\n<p>The senior US official said Trump and Modi would have a good opportunity to take stock of the trade talks, but further technical discussions would likely be needed to close a deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Shipping strikes strain US-India ties<\/h2>\n<p>Indian officials said Trump and Modi were also likely to discuss broader geopolitical issues, including energy security and potential Indian purchases of Venezuelan oil.<\/p>\n<p>India on Thursday also demanded an end to US strikes on shipping after three attacks on Indian-crewed tankers this week, including one that killed three Indian sailors.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths were the first reported since a US blockade on Iran-linked shipping began on April 13 in which US forces have disabled eight ships and turned back more than 100 others.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed recent events in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the State Department said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>&ldquo;The Secretary stressed that all commercial vessels should immediately comply with orders from US forces as they seek to uphold peace and security in the Strait,&rdquo; spokesman Tommy Pigott said. &ldquo;He underscored that violations of the US blockade and the illicit transport of Iranian oil will not be tolerated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other trade news, Canada had also reached out to US officials about further discussions on trade, the US official said, adding that Washington welcomed Ottawa&rsquo;s decision to roll back some threatened trade measures in recent days that would have hit American streaming companies.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions on the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement with Canada had been frequent but informal, and no major breakthroughs were expected at the summit, the official added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <\/strong><strong>Trump and other G7 leaders are meeting without China. Is that a mistake?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>US, India to tackle trade at G7 but deal not imminent, US officials say<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &ndash; US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will travel to India the week after the G7 leaders summit for further discussions on a possible trade deal, a senior US administration official said on Saturday (June 13), saying an agreement was possible. Trade would be discussed during President Donald Trump&rsquo;s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/us-india-to-tackle-trade-at-g7-but-deal-not-imminent-us-officials-say\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;US, India to tackle trade at G7 but deal not imminent, US officials say&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}