India plays down Trump decision to remove US trade privileges - Al Jazeera English

India plays down Trump decision to remove US trade privileges  Al Jazeera English

The Indian government said on Saturday it will continue to seek to build strong economic ties with the United States despite a decision by US President Donald Trump to end preferential trade treatment for India from June 5. In a relatively tame response to the announcement from Washington on Friday, the Indian government said it was "unfortunate" that its attempts to resolve significant US requests had not been accepted. Indian officials had previously raised the prospect of higher import duties on more than 20 US goods if Trump dropped India from the programme but there was no mention of t...

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