
Settling the much-awaited India-America trade deal is likely to be one of New Delhi’s top priorities as soon as Joe Biden’s administration in Washington DC takes over as the New President of the United States.

According to the report, New Delhi is all set to speed up its negotiation with Biden Administration for early restoration of the Generalized System of Preference (GSP) trade privilege for India, which was withdrawn by the United States former President Donald Trump in June 2019 after determining that India did not assure the latter to provide "equitable and reasonable access" to its markets.
The Generalized System of Preference is the largest and oldest US trade preference programme designed to promote economic development by allowing duty-free entry for thousands of products from designated beneficiary countries.
India will stick to its demand for the rollback of higher tariffs imposed on some of its aluminium and steel products by the US, as well as for greater market access into sectors like agriculture, automobile, and engineering.
The US-India trade deal was expected to be signed after Trump-Modi meeting in New York on September 24, 2019, but failed to happen as the two sides could not narrow the differences.
Later on, a “mini trade deal” with “limited scope” was expected after Trump-Modi meeting in New Delhi on February 25 this year. But it also was shelved as Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and the US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer could not agree on several points.
Goyal and Lighthizer had the last round of talks in September 2020, post which the latter said that New Delhi made a very good offer to the US.
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