Let's keep the pace going, Goyal to EU

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY minister Piyush Goyal met European Commissioner for trade and economic security Marcos Sefcovic late on Friday, for the second time within a month, as both sides intensified their engagements to sign an interim trade deal by July.

- MUKESH JAGOTA

The meeting in Brussels came just as negotiators from both sides wrapped up the latest round of discussion on the trade agreement. The Indian team is led by additional secretary from the Department of commerce L Satya Srinivas.

Goyal travelled to Brussels on May 23 from Washington, where he held two back-to-back meetings with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and negotiators and engaged in four days of meetings to work out the details of an interim trade agreement before the July 8 deadline for full imposition of reciprocal tariffs.