Days after both External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal held talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on trade and tariffs, a senior aide to President Donald Trump has bluntly declared that Washington will “have to fix India”.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, in an unusually sharp remarks, listed India among countries that he said were not giving American businesses fair access. “India -- these are countries that need to really react correctly to America. Open their markets, stop taking actions that harm America and that’s why we’re off sides with them,” Lutnick told a US news channel.

The comments come at a sensitive time in bilateral relations, with Washington last month slapping steep duties on Indian exports, citing New Delhi’s energy tie

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