Eam Jaishankar at the 9th Global Technology Summit: India sees “urgency” in the finalization of the United States, the United Kingdom, EU commerce pacts

The Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, speaks at the World Summit of Technology, in New Delhi. With kind permission: X / @ drsjaishankar

Recent prices in the United States have “concentrated our spirit on the need to correct a certain asymmetrical nature of our opening up to the world economy,” said the Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, Friday April 11, 2025), calling for growing partnerships with Western economies in participation in free trade.

“Many of us have argued that our complementary partners are in the West, where real growth is possible, where they are more open, with market savings, contractual foundations, and are much more competitive than the economies of our East,” added Mr. Jaishankar.

“I would say that we have an opportunity today … If we can focus on these three major negotiations (free trade agreement), with the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom, if these work for us this year, we would be in a different situation.” Jaishankar was speaking at the annual Summit of World Carnegie India technology. India is “prepared for a high emergency degree” in the finalization of these transactions, said Mr. Jaishankar, contrasting fervor to past reluctance.

Advanced pacts

On bifase and multilateral collaboration executives such as the American-Indian and emerging technology (ICET), Mr. Jaishankar said national follow-up was important. “My verification of reality on partnerships would be that you have to move both the regulation system and the real economy with each other,” he said.

“Often, we had discussions, but if they were not followed by projects, these discussions do not have the serious that the other party would have given,” he added.

Maga, Atmanirbharta

Answering a question about the question of whether the Make America Great Again movement was in tension with Indian self -sufficiency, Mr. Jaishankar said: “I do not see any contradiction because anyone who was objective on the direction of the world would have seen the lines of trend; It did not come out of blue. ”

Powering developments like Brexit and other refusals of globalization, he said: “There was a strengthening of different debate under this complacency of globalization”, and that even in India, “there was a deep anger as for the type of spill (low -cost goods) and the impact that this has had on small and medium -sized enterprises”.