India doesn’t negotiate under deadlines: Piyush Goyal on trade negotiations with US

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Bengaluru, July 5, 2025 (ANI): While speaking on Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's remarks on India's trade negotiations with the US, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said, “India does not negotiate under deadlines, we negotiate keeping national interests in mind. National interest is paramount in all our work across the world... Today India negotiates with a position of strength, we are self-confident and can compete with anyone in the world. This is not the India under UPA rule, which would beg for negotiations not under national interest... Nobody takes Rahul Gandhi seriously anymore because of the negativity he, his colleagues, and his party consistently spread. They have lost the confidence of the people of India, who have time and again rejected the Congress. Till today, they have not been able to come up with any positive agenda for the development of the nation...”

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00:00I've already made the stand of India clear. India does not negotiate under deadlines.

00:08We negotiate keeping national interests in mind and national interest is paramount in all our work

00:15across the world. We have entered into free trade agreements after the Modi government came in with

00:22Mauritius, with the United Arab Emirates, with Australia, with the four-nation EFTAG grouping,

00:33Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland, now with UK last month, and we continue to work

00:42with other developed nations like the EU bloc of 27 European countries, with the United States,

00:49with Oman, with Peru, with Chile. Today, India negotiates from a position of strength.

00:57We are self-confident. We can compete with anybody in the world. This is not a weak India

01:03under Congress and UPA, which would negotiate and make agreements which were not a national interest.

01:10One follow-up question on the same word. Rahul Gandhi has put on social media that Modi will bow down

01:16in front of the U.S., whereas we'll also let down the U.S.

01:19Well, nobody takes Mr. Rahul Gandhi seriously anymore because of the negativity that he,

01:27his party, and his colleagues are continuously spreading. The falsehoods that they are spreading,

01:34I think they have lost the plot. They have lost the confidence of the people of India

01:38who are again and again rejecting the Congress party and their politics. Till today, they have not

01:47been able to come up with any positive agenda for the development of the nation. Even in Karnataka,

01:55their government is completely collapsed. It's a hotbed of corruption. It's a government which is

02:03fighting amongst themselves every single day. I hope Mr. Rahul Gandhi can control his own party

02:09and his own governments because he has only barely a handful of governments left. The way he's going,

02:16his negativity will only lead to the people rejecting him, even in these states which he has left.

02:22God left.

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