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Critical mineral cooperation with US advancing rapidly: Jaishankar
Business Standard
|February 06, 2026
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said the “historic” India-US trade deal was in the final stages of detailing and will be completed soon.
He also said that critical mineral cooperation between the two countries was “advancing rapidly”.
The minister concluded a two-day visit to the US, which he termed as productive and positive. He was in Washington DC to attend a ministerial meet-
ing on critical minerals that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted, and which ministers and officials from 50 countries attended.
In his post on social media, Jaishankar said the trade deal “opens up a new phase in our bilateral ties, with vast possibilities for the relationship”.
This story is from the February 06, 2026 edition of Business Standard.
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