Foreign Affairs
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Over the past 25 years , the United States and India have deepened their cooperation, but when it comes to trade, the countries’ cooperation has lagged far behind.
Key fundamentals of the U.S.-Indian trade relationship have changed very little since both countries joined the World Trade Organization as founding members, in 1995 .
The two countries have made a few steps toward closer collaboration, dropping all of their outstanding WTO disputes.
The only comprehensive global trade negotiations in the WTO era ended in failure in 2015 because differences between poorer countries led by India and wealthy countries could not be bridged.
Over the past decade , both countries’ trade policies have begun to converge on key issues such as the importance of developing bilateral and plurilateral trade relationships and the use of trade as a tool of industrial policy.
India and the U.S. have made a strategic bet that clean energy technologies will be a major driver of economic growth and job creation in the twenty-first century .
The odds of Washington and New Delhi inking a full free trade agreement are, in the near term, close to zero .
But seizing opportunities to cooperate on trade is vital to both countries’ economic security and growth.
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