New Delhi: India and United States are set to resume trade negotiations this week. India also aims to boost its energy and gas imports from the US as an effort to ease tensions over its continued purchase of Russian oil.

The long-running discussions were suspended in August briefly for a period of time after the Trump administration imposed tariff hikes of up to 50 per cent on several Indian goods. The US accused India of indirectly supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine by continuing to buy discounted oil from Russia despite Western sanctions.

India to increase energy imports from US

However, the talks resumed in September after US President Donald Trump held a phone conversation with PM Narendra Modi. According to a Reuters report, India now plans to increase imports of US energy and

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