India was among the early movers on initiating a trade conversation with the new regime in the US. But there is a Trump deal within the trade deal, which is making things tricky
India seems to have hit a Trump wall in its trade deal negotiations with the US. Unlike other segments of the relationship like security and terrorism, where India has been able to nudge its pieces through the American system, the trade deal has got looped into a different White House orbit — an orbit with shifting goalposts and changing field.