https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...ts-positives-of-fta/articleshow/120940127.cms https://www.reuters.com/world/india...over-free-trade-pact-pm-modi-says-2025-05-06/
India made the deal with UK..particularly to insult Trump. This deal was not imminent prior to the Trump Tariffs. What Trump's doing to USA is very similar to what Boris did to UK with Brexit
Indians have lived in the UK since the mid 1800s. India uses the British parliamentary system. The British Raj built most of the infrastructure India used from independence probably until the 1980s. Most of the private schools in India were build by the British Raj. My mother's school in Dehra Doon had a British schoolmaster until the 1970s. In contrast Indians mostly came to the US after LBJ's call for immigrants with technical skills around the late 1960s. When I went to school in NYC & central NJ in the 1970s there were practically no Indians, not many non-whites in general. The elementary school I went to in East Brunswick, NJ was like 90% Jews. Even here in California there were few Indians when I went to school with in the early 1980s. So this phenomenon of Indians in the SF bay area is only recent starting in the late 1990s. British culture is intertwined with Indian food & music. So it makes sense that British have more in common with Indians.
I went to private elementary school and public high school in NYC in the 70's. The high school student body was a cross section of races and ethnicities, even back then.
India has agreed to lower their tariffs , not to pay higher tariffs. Trump in no rush for trade deals, wants everyone to "pay to shop" in America Trump also addressed the issue of high tariffs, particularly pointing to India as an example, and noted that they have already agreed to reduce their tariffs significantly. He emphasized that the U.S. would not tolerate high tariffs and expects other countries to open up their markets or lower their tariffs as part of the trade negotiations. https://www.investing.com/news/econ...ts-everyone-to-pay-to-shop-in-america-4026498
when we were in London we had a western dish with “British brown sauce” at the cafe at stone henge. It was tamarind sauce.