United States-India Joint Assertion – The White Home

The USA of America (United States) and India are happy to announce that they’ve reached a framework for an Interim Settlement relating to reciprocal and mutually useful commerce (Interim Settlement). At present’s framework reaffirms the nations’ dedication to the broader U.S.-India Bilateral Commerce Settlement (BTA) negotiations, launched by President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 13, 2025, which is able to embrace further market entry commitments and assist extra resilient provide chains. The Interim Settlement between the USA and India will symbolize a historic milestone in our nations’ partnership, demonstrating a standard dedication to reciprocal and balanced commerce primarily based on mutual pursuits and concrete outcomes.

Key phrases of the Interim Settlement between the USA and India will embrace:

• India will get rid of or cut back tariffs on all U.S. industrial items and a variety of U.S. meals and agricultural merchandise, together with dried distillers’ grains (DDGs), pink sorghum for animal feed, tree nuts, recent and processed fruit, soybean oil, wine and spirits, and extra merchandise.

• The USA will apply a reciprocal tariff charge of 18 % underneath Government Order 14257 of April 2, 2025 (Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Commerce Practices That Contribute to Giant and Persistent Annual United States Items Commerce Deficits), as amended, on originating items of India, together with textile and attire, leather-based and footwear, plastic and rubber, natural chemical substances, residence décor, artisanal merchandise, and sure equipment, and, topic to the profitable conclusion of the Interim Settlement, will take away the reciprocal tariff on a variety of products recognized within the Potential Tariff Changes for Aligned Companions Annex to Government Order 14346 of September 5, 2025 (Modifying the Scope of Reciprocal Tariffs and Establishing Procedures for Implementing Commerce and Safety Agreements), as amended, together with generic prescription drugs, gems and diamonds, and plane elements.

• The USA may even take away tariffs on sure plane and plane elements of India imposed to get rid of threats to nationwide safety present in Proclamation 9704 of March 8, 2018 (Adjusting Imports of Aluminum Into the USA), as amended; Proclamation 9705 of March 8, 2018 (Adjusting Imports of Metal Into the USA), as amended; and Proclamation 10962 of July 30, 2025 (Adjusting Imports of Copper Into the USA).  Equally, in keeping with U.S. nationwide safety necessities, India will obtain a preferential tariff charge quota for automotive elements topic to the tariff imposed to get rid of threats to nationwide safety present in Proclamation 9888 of Might 17, 2019 (Adjusting Imports of Vehicles and Vehicle Components Into the USA), as amended.  Contingent on the findings of the U.S. Part 232 investigation of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical elements, India will obtain negotiated outcomes with respect to generic prescription drugs and elements.

• The USA and India commit to offer one another preferential market entry in sectors of respective curiosity on a sustained foundation.

• The USA and India will set up guidelines of origin that make sure that the advantages of theAgreement accrue predominately to the USA and India. 

• The USA and India will deal with non-tariff boundaries that have an effect on bilateral commerce. India agrees to deal with long-standing boundaries to the commerce in U.S. medical units; get rid of restrictive import licensing procedures that delay market entry for, or impose quantitative restrictions on, U.S. Info and Communication Know-how (ICT) items; and decide, with a view in direction of a optimistic consequence, inside six months of entry into power of the Settlement whether or not U.S.-developed or worldwide requirements, together with testing necessities, are acceptable for the needs of U.S. exports getting into the Indian market in recognized sectors. Recognizing the significance of working collectively to resolve long-standing considerations, India additionally agrees to deal with long-standing non-tariff boundaries to the commerce in U.S. meals and agricultural merchandise.

• For the needs of enhancing ease of compliance with relevant technical laws, the USA and India intend to debate their respective requirements and conformity evaluation procedures for mutually agreed sectors. 

• Within the occasion of any adjustments to the agreed upon tariffs of both nation, the USA and India agree that the opposite nation might modify its commitments.

• The USA and India will work in direction of additional increasing market entry alternatives via the negotiations of the BTA. The USA affirms that it intends to consider, throughout the negotiations of the BTA, India’s request that the USA proceed to work to decrease tariffs on Indian items.

• The USA and India comply with strengthen financial safety alignment to boost provide chain resilience and innovation via complementary actions to deal with non- market insurance policies of third events, in addition to cooperation on inbound and outbound funding opinions and export controls.

• India intends to buy $500 billion of U.S. power merchandise, plane and plane elements, treasured metals, know-how merchandise, and coking coal over the subsequent 5 years. India and the USA will considerably enhance commerce in know-how merchandise, together with Graphics Processing Models (GPUs) and different items utilized in knowledge facilities, and develop joint know-how cooperation.

• The USA and India commit to deal with discriminatory or burdensome practices and different boundaries to digital commerce and to set a transparent pathway to attain strong, formidable, and mutually useful digital commerce guidelines as a part of the BTA.

The USA and India will promptly implement this framework and work in direction of finalizing the Interim Settlement with a view to concluding a mutually useful BTA in keeping with the roadmap agreed within the Phrases of Reference BTA in keeping with the roadmap agreed within the Phrases of Reference.