India-U.S. trade deal will be signed ‘over the next few weeks and months’: Sergio Gor

Presenting an optimistic representation of trade ties betwixt India and the United States, U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor connected Friday (May 29, 2026) said the 2 sides were expected to motion a commercialized woody ‘over the adjacent fewer weeks and months’.

Delivering a code astatine the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) successful New Delhi, Mr. Gor said India was aligning with “trusted ecosystems and resilient proviso chains”.

“Our existent interim commercialized statement is connected the array for america to finalise, and that volition unlock prosperity for some of our countries. Just past week, India sent a squad to Washington DC to finalise the past 1% of that commercialized deal. Next week, we volition invited a U.S. delegation present to proceed those talks. We afloat expect that the commercialized woody volition beryllium signed implicit the adjacent fewer weeks and months,” said Mr. Gor successful his archetypal code pursuing the sojourn of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to New Delhi earlier this week to enactment successful the Quad Foreign Ministers’ gathering erstwhile the 2 sides signed an statement connected captious minerals to bypass the disruption caused by China’s export controls connected captious minerals that were imposed past year.

Broader BTA

The Hindu had earlier reported connected May 27 that a high-power squad of U.S. negotiators led by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer volition beryllium visiting India from June 1-4 to “finalise the details” pertaining to the Interim Agreement betwixt the 2 countries and instrumentality guardant the negotiations connected a broader Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA).

Mr. Gor pointed retired that successful a small implicit 2 decades, bilateral commercialized had grown from $20 cardinal to $220 cardinal successful goods and services and described this arsenic an result of “deeper, broader engagement and stronger economical integration”. He said the U.S. had emerged arsenic 1 of India’s largest trading partners, and India was among the “top trading partners of the United States”, and cited innovation, concern successful sectors specified arsenic integer trade, precocious manufacturing, vigor and emerging technologies.

Mr Gor described ‘critical and emerging technologies’ arsenic factors that were “fundamentally reshaping” the planetary ‘balance of power’ and said, “I judge nary concern is amended positioned to pb that complaint than ours.”

“We realise the imaginable that India has. We spot the maturation that India has, not lone economically, but strategically to the world. And it is an country wherever we person identified, wherever we are growing, wherever we are enhancing this partnership. And it is 1 of the goals that this President has from the White House,” said Mr. Gor.