Delhi to protect some agri goods: US trade chief

The Trump administration is working to put the details of its trade deal with India announced on Monday on paper, but it will reduce India's tariffs on American industrial goods to zero from 13.5 per cent and eliminate duties but allow India to maintain some agricultural import protections, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Tuesday.

Greer told CNBC in an interview that the US would continue to work on access to certain protected areas of India's agriculture sector, but said India's tariffs “for a variety of things, you know, tree nuts, wine, spirits, fruits, vegetables, etc, they’re going down to zero”. He did not mention rice, beef, soybeans, sugar or dairy, which are commodities that India excluded from its recent trade deal with the EU.