A team of negotiators from the U.S. will visit India on December 10-12 to take forward talks on the first tranche, dealing with tariffs, of a Bilateral Trade Agreement between the two countries .

According to sources in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), the U.S. delegation is expected to be led by Deputy US Trade Representative Rick Switzer, while the Indian side will be represented by Darpan Jain, joint secretary in MoCI.

The talks are not expected to constitute an official round of negotiations, the last of which took place in the U.S. in October. However, the two sides are looking forward to making “strong progress” towards addressing the issue of tariffs.

The U.S. currently has imposed a total of 50% tariffs on imports from India, with 25% of these constituting recipro

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