{"id":312809,"date":"2019-06-01T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312809"},"modified":"2019-06-01T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:22:56","slug":"unfortunate-move-says-india-as-donald-trump-ends-preferential-trade-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/unfortunate-move-says-india-as-donald-trump-ends-preferential-trade-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate move, says India as Donald Trump ends Preferential Trade Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312810 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/modi-n-trump-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-n-trump-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/modi-n-trump.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India has expressed disappointment at the decision of the United States to end the country\u2019s designation as a beneficiary nation under a key preferential trade programme, despite offer of a &#8220;resolution on significant US requests to find a mutually acceptable way forward&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia as part of our bilateral trade discussions, had offered resolution on significant US requests in an effort to find a mutually acceptable way forward. It is unfortunate that this did not find acceptance by the US,\u201d the commerce ministry said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement further said, \u201cIn any relationship, in particular in the area of economic ties, there are ongoing issues which get resolved mutually from time to time. We view this issue as a part of this regular process and will continue to build on our strong ties with the US, both economic and people-to-people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are confident that the two Nations will continue to work together intensively for further growing these ties in a mutually beneficial manner,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia, like the US and other nations shall always uphold its national interest in these matters,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Friday President Donald Trump said on that the United States would end its preferential trade treatment for India on June 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has expressed disappointment at the decision of the United States to end the country\u2019s designation as a beneficiary nation under a key preferential trade programme, despite offer of a &#8220;resolution on significant US requests to find a mutually acceptable way forward&#8221;. \u201cIndia as part of our bilateral trade discussions, had offered resolution on significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[64,574,11427,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312811,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312809\/revisions\/312811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}