India’s strategy to counter the US’s damaging tariffs is to finalize a trade agreement with President Donald Trump’s government, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said.

The impact of US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs is not yet known and New Delhi's strategy to deal with the situation emerging from it is to seal a bilateral trade pact with Washington by fall of this year,

In the first detailed response to the US policy on tariff, Jaishankar said India is perhaps the only country to reach an understanding with Washington to seal a trade deal after Trump assumed the presidency for the second time.