Piyush Goyal rejects report that India is holding out on US trade deal

Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday rejected a Reuters report that India declined a quick trade agreement with the United States during talks in June and is holding out for a better deal.

In a social media post, Goyal described the report, published on Monday, as “completely false, baseless and misleading”.

Referring to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s June visit to Delhi, Goyal said that he had “fantastic meetings” with the official.