India Textiles to Get US Benefits Like Bangladesh, Official Says

Screen printed textiles at a fabric washing unit in Ahmedabad, India.Photographer: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg

India’s textile exports to the US will receive the same benefits Washington has extended to Bangladesh, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.

The trade deal between New Delhi and the White House will include a clause on duty benefits if cotton yarn is imported from the US, Goyal told reporters in New Delhi. Neither the joint statement nor the White House factsheet on the India-US deal explicitly mentioned the clause.