President Trump agrees to start talks with India to reduce trade friction February 25 19:37

While visiting India, US President Trump met with Prime Minister Modi and agreed to begin talks on resolving the problem of trade tensions between the two countries.

U.S. President Trump, who has been visiting India since April 24, met with Prime Minister Modi in the capital city of New Delhi on the afternoon of the 25th.

After the talks, the two leaders came to a press conference and revealed that they had agreed to formalize talks between the United States and India to reduce trade tensions.

President Trump stressed the outcome by saying, "We had a very productive talk. Exports from the United States to India will increase significantly in the future."

On the other hand, Prime Minister Modi said, "We had a very positive talk at the ministerial level on trade," and said that "the talks must be fair and balanced." Was shown.

The U.S. dismissed India as a target country for lowering tariffs on exports and giving preferential treatment to India, saying that the Indian market was closed last year, saying it had a large trade deficit. India also added tariffs as retaliation and trade friction between the two countries was a problem.

In this talk, the U.S. also agreed to sell $ 3 billion in anti-submarine patrol helicopters and other defense equipment worth ¥ 330 billion in Japanese yen to the Indian side. It seems that there is also a purpose to deepen the relationship.