A US trade team led by Deputy US Trade Representative Rick Switzer is set to visit India next week to iron out differences such that the long-pending bilateral trade agreement (BTA) is signed before December-end, a source aware of the developments said.

Switzer and Brendan Lynch, the US chief negotiator for the trade deal with India, are expected to meet Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal for the final talks ahead of the agreement. Negotiations with the US had commenced after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the US in February this year.

The meeting comes close on the heels of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to India when the two countries decided to boost bilateral trade to $100 billion by 2030 from $64 billion now, and increase domestic currency trade.

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