Auckland, November 05: Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday indicated that talks on the India-US Bilateral Trade Agreement are “going on very well” but said that there are “many sensitive and serious issues” and it would take time.

“Talks are going on very well. There are many sensitive issues, many serious issues, so naturally, it takes some time,” Minister Goyal said, when asked to provide an update on India-US trade talks.

Recently, a government official had asserted that India and the US were “very near” to finalising the first tranche of the ambitious Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA).

The official affirmed that both sides are converging on most of the issues and negotiators of both the countries are sorting out “language of the agreement”.

Talks are progressing well o

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