He met his Indian counterpart commerce minister Piyush Goyal, days after the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff, slowing down progress on bilateral trade agreement. Engaged in very fruitful discussions to expand our trade and economic partnership,” Goyal said in a social media post. Chief negotiators of both sides were scheduled to meet this week in Washington to finalise the legal text for the pact, but it was postponed after Supreme Court order. After the court order, Trump has warned countries to honour the deals agreed so far and has threatened higher tariffs on goods from nations that “play games”. The Supreme Court order was a major setback to Trump’s pivotal economic agenda in his second term.

Source: The Telegraph February 27, 2026 02:04 UTC