India’s trade officials are putting up a brave front and hoping to reach a broad bilateral trade agreement (BTA) with a visiting US team next week. This, they say, will help ward off a slew of punishing tariffs that are due to kick in on April 2 next month.

Sign up here.US President Donald Trump’s threats to hike tariffs isn’t all bad news for India’s economy since it’s driving the government to lower trade barriers, which will spur competition and growth.

Corporate America is scrambling to implement countermeasures as President Donald Trump's latest tariffs on Chinese imports went into effect earlier this week, while some levies on Canada and Mexico have been suspended.