To tax or not? Govt makes last ditch attempt to save India-US trade package

US wants India to hold off on tariff increase, Govt won't press for GSP benefits to be reinstated

Less than a month before the country goes to polls, the government is pushing forward on the proposed India-US trade package to clear pending bilateral issues and leave behind the bad blood caused by America cancelling India's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits.

Keen to salvage its engagement with Washington DC that has gone southbound ever since the Trump administration came in, India has called for a final set of meetings with US trade officials, soon. "The Prime Ministers office has directed that there be constant communication and a joint solution should be reached with the US," a senior government