{"id":70858,"date":"2025-04-09T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/tariffs-driving-india-to-strike-trade-deals-finance-minister-says-ahead-of-uk-talks"},"modified":"2025-04-09T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:01:35","slug":"tariffs-driving-india-to-strike-trade-deals-finance-minister-says-ahead-of-uk-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70858","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs driving India to strike trade deals, finance minister says ahead of UK talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nirmala Sitharaman says turmoil forcing countries to seek accords beyond old ideological and political ties<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> is seeking to strike more trade deals with other countries at a time of \u201cglobal uncertainty\u201d, its finance minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/jul\/09\/india-social-stock-exchange-could-revolutionise-ethical-impact-businesses-aid-nirmala-sitharaman\">Nirmala Sitharaman<\/a>, said before talks with the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman, who serves as finance and corporate affairs minister in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>\u2019s government, said she was hopeful the UK and India would finalise a free trade deal \u201csooner rather than later\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/08\/tariffs-driving-india-to-strike-trade-deals-finance-minister-says-ahead-of-uk-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nirmala Sitharaman says turmoil forcing countries to seek accords beyond old ideological and political tiesIndia is seeking to strike more trade deals with other countries at a time of \u201cglobal uncertainty\u201d, its finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, sai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,558,62,557,4,3284,3280,1536,3279,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-global-economy","category-india","category-international-trade","category-politics","category-rachel-reeves","category-tariffs","category-trade-policy","category-trump-tariffs","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70868,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70858\/revisions\/70868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}