Agriculture specifically is unlikely to be much affected by the U.S. election, but there are tangential issues with implications for the sector. Chutzpah Trade Policy Demand At the recent India-U.S. Trade Policy Forum, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitaraman asked her American counterpart, Michael Froman, to grant better access for her country’s agricultural products, including by lowering tariffs. The request is quite bold given the fact that India itself imposes an average 114 percent tariff on agricultural imports, among the highest in the world, versus a 12 percent average applied by the U.S. Moreover, to quote the U.S. International Trade Commission, India moves its duties up and down “frequently and substantially,” creating huge uncerta...

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