{"id":68988,"date":"2025-05-02T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68988\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:43:08","slug":"indias-trade-chief-returns-to-london-as-delhi-closes-in-on-uk-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/68988\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s trade chief returns to London as Delhi closes in on UK deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reynolds and Goyal are hoping to sign an agreement in principle for the deal this weekend in expectation that Prime Ministers Keir Starmer and Narendra Modi would then finalize the deal later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The two nations are also negotiating a Bilateral Investment Treaty in parallel with the trade deal.<\/p>\n<p>Last month both sides overcame a significant hurdle in the talks when they closed the mobility chapter, which governs inter-company transfers. India conceded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/india-visa-new-rules-pave-way-uk-trade-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain will only offer minor changes<\/a> to its visa regime.<\/p>\n<p>Goyal left the U.K. earlier this week for a trip to Oslo and then Brussels. The visits were focused on carving out exemptions to new carbon tax regimes.<\/p>\n<p>At the time negotiators had yet to resolve several key issues in the talks. Among them were data localization rules India imposes on financial services firms; the description of Indian territory in the Free Trade Agreement; the sunset clause in the investment treaty; and India\u2019s calls for carve-outs from Britain\u2019s nascent border tax on high-emissions commodities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have advanced that agenda to deliver a great deal and our relationship&#8217;s been a part of that story,\u201d Reynolds <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/biztradegovuk\/status\/1917551953799717092\" target=\"_blank\">posted online<\/a> following Goyal\u2019s visit at the start of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to us continuing this work because I think it&#8217;s an important message for the UK and for India,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been clear we will only sign a deal that is fair, balanced and ultimately in the best interests of the British people,\u201d the U.K. government spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reynolds and Goyal are hoping to sign an agreement in principle for the deal this weekend in expectation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[768,748,2814,393,7558,4884,730,1197,1443,807,257,5733,22817,809,1199,1200,1201,6862,16,15,6863],"class_list":{"0":"post-68988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-data","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-financial-services","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-investment","16":"tag-jonathan-reynolds","17":"tag-keir-starmer","18":"tag-london","19":"tag-mobility","20":"tag-narendra-modi","21":"tag-negotiations","22":"tag-services","23":"tag-tax","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-trade-agreements","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-visas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439481182538040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68988","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=68988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}