Citing India's imports of oil from Russia, the US imposed 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods and is now seeking greater access to India's dairy and agricultural markets

Rajesh Agrawal, who will soon become commerce secretary, is in charge of India’s trade talks with the United States, which have resumed. Mr Agrawal, an IAS officer from the 1994 batch, is accustomed to difficult negotiations. With a career that straddles trade promotion, exports and policy reform, he has been India's go-to negotiator from Asean to Australia to the Indo-Pacific framework. He brings both data expertise and strategic intuition to the table, having earned degrees in international business, operations research, and statistics.

However, this most recent round with Washington, which began on September 16 in Del

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