Agri goods key focus of early India-US tariff talks

Talks for bilateral trade deal on

- Rajeev Jayaswal

Agricultural produce has emerged as one of the key focus areas of the ongoing discussions between India and the US for a trade deal, people familiar with the matter said, adding that despite popular perception, it is possible for either country to enhance market access for produce by reducing tariffs and removing non-tariff barriers.

"It can be done on reciprocal basis as the two countries are complementing, and not competing with, each other in a host of items, making greater market access for those items possible without hurting their respective farming communities," one of them said citing pulses, edible oil, tree nuts, forest products, and frozen turkey and frozen duck as products that India could import from the US.