‘You can’t walk in there’: Trump calls full access to India ‘unthinkable’ amid trade talks
The US President’s comments are approaching the 9th of July trade date. However, in recent statements, he said that the deadline is not a fixed date.
Uz We want to fall into a complete trade barrier that is unthinkable, and I’m not sure that this will happen. But from this moment we agree to go to India and trade … ”Trump said at a White House press conference, referring to India’s current market access restrictions.
“India, I think we will reach an agreement that is our right to go and trade. Right now. You can’t walk there, you can’t think,” he added.
In the early hours of Thursday, Trump implied an approaching agreement with India, while talking at Big Beautiful Bill event. “One comes, maybe with India. Very big. We will open India…” he confirmed that the US has signed a new agreement with China under the Geneva.
“We will not make an agreement with everyone. Some of them will send them only one letter, thank you very much. You will pay 25, 35, 45. This is an easy way to do this and my people do not want to do it. They do not want to do this, but they want to deal with the potential agreement and market access problems with India.” At the beginning of this month, US Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick said, “You should expect an agreement between the United States and India in the not too far away,” he said.
Following the February 2025 meeting between the Minister of Trade and Industry of Indian Trade and Industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Trump, a bilateral agreement was made. Goyal, “to encourage the job to make a beautiful, fair, egalitarian and balanced agreement to make a negotiation,” he said.
