A team of officials from the US is expected to visit India next week for talks on the proposed bilateral trade agreement, sources said Thursday.

The visit is crucial as India and the US are working to finalise the first tranche of the pact.

“The team is likely to come next week. Dates are being finalised, and discussions are on,” said one of the sources.

This visit of the US officials would be the second after the imposition of a 25 per cent tariff and an additional 25 per cent penalty on Indian goods entering the American market for buying Russian crude oil.

Earlier, the team had visited September 16.

September 22, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal also led an official delegation to the US for trade talks.

He was accompanied by the then special secretary in the ministry, R

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