Jonathan Reynolds, UK business and trade secretary; Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister; Keir Starmer, UK prime minister; and Piyush Goyal, India’s commerce and industry secretary at Chequers in the UK on Thursday. Photo: Bloomberg
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The UK and India signed a free trade agreement on Thursday during a visit by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to the UK, sealing a deal to cut tariffs on goods from textiles to whiskey and cars and allow more market access for businesses.
Talks on the trade pact were concluded in May after three years of stop-start negotiations, with both sides hastening efforts to clinch a deal in the shadow of tariff turmoil unleashed by US president Donald Trump.
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