Jayanta Roy Chowdhury New Delhi, Jan 10 (UNI) In the midst of US tariff threats to India and an imbroglio over American demands that Greenland be handed over, New Delhi and Brussels are racing to bridge gaps on carbon pricing, steel access and market openings, with a new urgency to clinch a long-delayed free trade pact. India’s commerce minister Piyush Goel had remained locked in marathon trade talks on Friday with his European union counterpart Maros Sefovic to try and come to a consensus on contentious issues including Europe’s controversial carbon tax and India’s red lines on farm subsidies. Top commerce ministry officials told UNI, “We need the deal, they need it too as both want stable markets, which are shielded from tariff threats and we both want to decouple from China-led supply chains.
