Two Aprils ago, the UK’s prime minister promised he would deliver a free-trade agreement with India “by Diwali.” That prime minister, Boris Johnson, left office a few months later and 2022’s iteration of the Indian Festival of Lights passed without anything being signed. Since then, another Diwali (and another British prime minister) has come and gone with no trade deal on the horizon.

There is enough blame to go around. Both sides are displaying remarkable short-sightedness in their negotiating tactics.

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India and the UK Are Acting Like Cowards on Trade

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14.11.2023

Two Aprils ago, the UK’s prime minister promised he would deliver a free-trade agreement with India “by Diwali.”........

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