{"id":274547,"date":"2026-02-01T00:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274547\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:25:12","slug":"india-us-working-towards-closing-trade-deal-quickly-goyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274547\/","title":{"rendered":"India, US Working Towards Closing Trade Deal Quickly: Goyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (<a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a>&#8211; Kashmir Observer)   New Delhi- The negotiations for a proposed bilateral trade agreement between India and the US are progressing, and both countries are working to close the deal\u201cquickly\u201d, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed confidence that\u201cgood news\u201d on this front will be announced in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery free trade agreement stands on its own legs. And we are having very good negotiations. My counterpart in the US and I have a very wonderful working relationship and a wonderful personal friendship. We are working towards closing the deal quickly,\u201d Goyal told PTI in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>He was replying to a question about when the\u201cfather of all deals\u201d between India and the US would become a reality, now that the\u201cmother of all deals\u201d is already in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>The free trade agreement between India and the European Union, which was concluded recently, has been widely termed as\u201cmother of all deals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On whether the India-US trade pact could be concluded by the end of this year, he said trade deals are never negotiated with a deadline and would be finalised at the right time and in the interests of both countries.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1110677526\/India-US-Working-Towards-Closing-Trade-Deal-Quickly-Goyal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>MENAFN31012026000215011059ID1110677526<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p> Legal Disclaimer:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a> provides the<br \/>\n              information \u201cas is\u201d without warranty of any kind. We do not accept<br \/>\n              any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images,<br \/>\n              videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information<br \/>\n              contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright<br \/>\n              issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(MENAFN&#8211; Kashmir Observer) New Delhi- The negotiations for a proposed bilateral trade agreement between India and the US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-274547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}