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US President Donald Trump has spoken with Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid escalating trade tensions between Washington and New Delhi, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said. The conversation comes at a sensitive moment as both sides navigate disputes over tariffs, market access, and supply-chain realignments, even as they seek to preserve the broader strategic partnership.<\/p>
While details of the call were not disclosed, the outreach signals an effort by both leaders to keep diplomatic channels open and prevent economic frictions from spilling over into cooperation on defence, technology, and the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>
Trump has also shared a photo of himself with Modi featured in the India Today <\/em>magazine’s ‘Newsmakers of the Year 2025, captioned \u201cThe mover & the shaker.\u201d He further posted an image of New Delhi\u2019s India Gate on his Truth Social account, describing the landmark as a \u201cbeautiful triumphal arch.\u201d<\/p> India and the United States are continuing constructive engagement on trade, but a comprehensive bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) is still some distance away, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said, cautioning against expecting a quick timeline.<\/p> While expressing hope that progress would come \u201csooner rather than later,\u201d he said it was not possible to put a date on a broader FTA. On reciprocal tariffs, Agrawal noted that the issue is largely confined to trade in goods, adding that India is aiming for a more balanced trading relationship with the US.<\/p> Separately, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said negotiations on a proposed bilateral trade agreement are moving forward and that both sides are working to conclude the deal swiftly. Expressing confidence that \u201cgood news\u201d could emerge in the near future, Goyal told PTI <\/em>that talks with his US counterpart were progressing well, supported by a strong working relationship.<\/p> Responding to a question on when the so-called \u201cfather of all deals\u201d between India and the US might be finalised \u2014 following the recently concluded India-EU FTA, dubbed the \u201cmother of all deals\u201d \u2014 Goyal said trade agreements are not negotiated against deadlines and would be concluded at the right time, in the mutual interest of both countries.<\/p> <\/div> Trump Modi call, US India trade tensions, Trump PM Modi talks, Sergio Gor statement, US envoy to India, India US trade dispute, tariffs US India, US India diplomatic relations, Trump India trade policy, Modi Trump conversation#Stay #tuned #Ambassador #Sergio #Gor #Donald #Trump #spoke #Narendra #Modi1770079065<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US President Donald Trump has spoken with Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid escalating trade tensions between Washington and New Delhi, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said. The conversation comes at a sensitive moment as both sides navigate disputes over tariffs, market access, and supply-chain realignments, even as they seek to preserve the broader strategic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1886,2292,954,8314,3319,8318,8321,953,8312,8320,2282,8315,378,8317,8310,8311,8319,8313,8316,942],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-ambassador","tag-donald","tag-gor","tag-india-us-trade-dispute","tag-modi","tag-modi-trump-conversation","tag-narendra","tag-sergio","tag-sergio-gor-statement","tag-spoke","tag-stay","tag-tariffs-us-india","tag-trump","tag-trump-india-trade-policy","tag-trump-modi-call","tag-trump-pm-modi-talks","tag-tuned","tag-us-envoy-to-india","tag-us-india-diplomatic-relations","tag-us-india-trade-tensions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}