India, US trade deal 'very soon', says Trump after meeting with PM Modi

The deal would lower some tariffs on US produce and restore preferential treatment for some Indian exports to the United States, it was reported earlier this week

India and the US will have a "trade deal very soon", said US President Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday after a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
 

"Prime Minister Modi brought India together at the time of dissension--when India was torn. He is like an American version of Elvis (Presley)," Trump said on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly.

"I think very soon we'll have a trade deal. We'll have the larger deal down the road a little bit, but we will have a trade deal very soon," Trump told reporters as Modi watched