{"id":637343,"date":"2025-12-17T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/637343\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:00:20","slug":"to-clinch-a-deal-with-india-the-eu-should-take-a-tip-from-the-uk-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/637343\/","title":{"rendered":"To clinch a deal with India, the EU should take a tip from the UK \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to this rigidity, India\u2019s concessions in its deal with the U.K. emerged from the flexibility it was granted in the agriculture sector, which was largely insulated from British products, the official said. \u201cFor all its faults, [the U.K.] understands India and Indians better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of Indians depend on agriculture for their livelihood, and farmers make up a strong voting bloc that holds strong political clout. Back in 2021, farmer protests even forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw agricultural reforms and apologize.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I have been told by former Indian officials and experts that the U.S. tariffs on India weren\u2019t punishment for the country\u2019s purchase of Russian oil, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/27\/nx-s1-5518809\/india-us-tariffs-trump-modi-exports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as Trump has claimed<\/a>, but rather for its refusal to let U.S. food products flood the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13505672-1024x654.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7672443\"  \/>Nearly half of Indians depend on agriculture for their livelihood, and farmers make up a strong voting bloc that holds strong political clout. | Jagadeesh Nv\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interests of our farmers are top priority. India will never compromise on the interests of its farmers, dairy farmers and fishermen,\u201d Modi had <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/will-protect-our-farmers-ready-to-pay-heavy-price-for-it-pm-modi\/articleshow\/123175176.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But these same differences now threaten the EU-India relationship before it even properly takes off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Europeans could learn from the British,\u201d the Indian official noted. \u201cThey excluded dairy, chicken and apples from the deal,\u201d he explained, listing products particularly important to India. \u201cIn exchange, we let them bring in salmon, cod and lamb.\u201d He also alluded that India could consider dropping tariffs on cars and wine if the bloc kept out of agriculture: \u201cIn liquor, luxury cars and wine, there is always room, since that doesn\u2019t affect our most vulnerable people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In contrast to this rigidity, India\u2019s concessions in its deal with the U.K. emerged from the flexibility it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3971,26258,346,1395,6215,32,2000,8812,34594,6562,299,5187,1214,6644,475,730,1216,22817,809,99198,479,1201,6862,196485,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-637343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-carbon-border-tax","10":"tag-cars","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-cooperation","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-eu-china-relations","16":"tag-eu-india","17":"tag-eu27","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european","20":"tag-exports","21":"tag-farmers","22":"tag-imports","23":"tag-india","24":"tag-maros-sefcovic","25":"tag-narendra-modi","26":"tag-negotiations","27":"tag-steeltariffs","28":"tag-tariffs","29":"tag-trade","30":"tag-trade-agreements","31":"tag-uk-india-trade-talks","32":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115732914799922198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}