EU and India clinch trade pact amid US tariff war

What happened

The European Union and India Tuesday announced a free trade agreement that will slash tariffs on most goods over the next decade. The agreement will cover 2 billion people and “one-third of global trade,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in New Delhi, standing alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa. Von der Leyen called it “the mother of all deals.”

Who said what

The EU and India “talked...