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U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026) said helium would guarantee that elder officials of the U.S. Government regularly question to India, adjacent arsenic U.S. Senator Steve Daines concluded a two-day sojourn to India during which helium tried to transportation the Indian broadside to see “favourable” pulse harvest provisions successful a aboriginal commercialized deal.
During his visit, Mr. Daines met Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar, Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, members of parliament, and U.S. and Indian concern leaders.
“I came to India to reaffirm our 2 countries’ shared values and strategical concern and to advocator connected behalf of Montana’s pulse harvest farmers,” Mr. Daines said successful a property statement. “I appreciated Minister Goyal for listening to our farmers’ concerns and volition proceed to enactment with President Trump to property this important priority.”
A merchandise by the U.S. embassy successful New Delhi added that Mr. Daines “pursued interests of the Trump Administration arsenic good arsenic the radical of Montana, including urging favourable pulse harvest provisions successful immoderate aboriginal commercialized agreements betwixt the United States and India”.
The contented of allowing cultivation imports has been a delicate 1 for India, which has resisted the inclusion of delicate cultivation products successful immoderate escaped commercialized statement it has signed truthful far. Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal has confirmed that delicate cultivation issues would beryllium excluded from the upcoming India-EU escaped commercialized statement arsenic well.
The U.S., however, is simply a antithetic substance arsenic adjacent Indian Government officials person conceded that the bigger the system we are dealing with, the larger the concessions we would person to give. However, agriculture and dairy stay “big reddish lines” for India, arsenic Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said successful June 2025.
Following his gathering with Mr. Daines, Mr. Goyal took to X to accidental that Mr. Gor, Mr. Daines and helium had had a “productive speech of views connected our bilateral relationship”.
“As we enactment to instrumentality the concern betwixt our 2 nations to the adjacent level successful cooperation, I volition guarantee that elder authorities officials volition regularly question to India,” Mr. Gor said.
“As a cardinal subordinate of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with extended acquisition successful Asia, Senator Daines’ meetings with authoritative and backstage assemblage stakeholders successful New Delhi were instrumental successful advancing our bilateral relationship,” helium added.
According to the merchandise by the U.S. embassy, Mr. Daines met elder Indian officials and parliamentarians and discussed increasing U.S.-India defence cooperation, communal efforts to unafraid proviso chains, and the value of the U.S.-India strategical concern to guarantee shared information and “preserving a unchangeable and unfastened Indo-Pacific region”.
“Sen. Daines sought acceleration of the progressive and ongoing talks towards concluding a just and reciprocal bilateral commercialized deal,” the merchandise added. Sen. Daines spoke with representatives of the concern assemblage to item the galore opportunities to deepen practice connected precocious technologies and grow commercialized and concern ties to heighten prosperity successful some the United States and India.”
