“The timing is no coincidence: both India and the EU accelerated talks amid shared frustration with Trump’s tariff wars and a desire to counterbalance China’s dominance in global supply chains,” Dilawar Singh, an Independent Director on the board of a listed Indian company told Newsweek.
onsdag 28. januar 2026
Trump Tariffs Push India-EU Into Historic Trade Alliance
The U.S President Donald J. Trump’s ‘America First’ trade policies inadvertently appear to have provided a catalyst for the India and the European Union’s historic free trade agreement; immediately dubbed the “mother of all deals”, in a move that reshapes the global economic order. Concluded after nearly two decades of on-again, off-again negotiations, the pact unites two of the world’s largest markets in a free trade zone of about two billion people, roughly a quarter of global GDP.
“The timing is no coincidence: both India and the EU accelerated talks amid shared frustration with Trump’s tariff wars and a desire to counterbalance China’s dominance in global supply chains,” Dilawar Singh, an Independent Director on the board of a listed Indian company told Newsweek.
“The timing is no coincidence: both India and the EU accelerated talks amid shared frustration with Trump’s tariff wars and a desire to counterbalance China’s dominance in global supply chains,” Dilawar Singh, an Independent Director on the board of a listed Indian company told Newsweek.
