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FILE PHOTO: Fishermen sit in a trawler navigating past containers stalked on a ship at a port in Vallarpadam in the southern Indian city of Kochi December 11, 2013. India's trade deficit narrowed in November as exports rose, while imports hit the lowest level in four years after gold shipments from overseas fell sharply, according to the trade ministry on Wednesday. REUTERS/Sivaram V.
India and the United States have made "positive progress" in their negotiations last week to clinch a bilateral trade agreement, the Indian government said in a statement on Tuesday.
Officials from the two countries discussed the path for concluding the first tranche of a mutually beneficial trade pact by the fall of 2025, India's commerce ministry said.
(Reporting by Tanvi Mehta; Editing by YP Rajesh)
