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Speaker 1: India would be one of the first trade deals we

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Speaker 1: would sign, So watch this space.

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Speaker 2: I'm Stephanie Flanders, head of Government and Economics at Bloomberg.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Trumpnomics, the podcast that looks at the economic

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Speaker 2: world of Donald Trump, how he's already shaped the global economy,

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Speaker 2: and what on earth is going to happen next. This week,

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Speaker 2: we're leaning into the global impact of trump Andomics by

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Speaker 2: asking is India the winner in Trump's trade war with China.

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Speaker 2: According to the White House, at least seventy countries are

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Speaker 2: queuing up to do massive trade deals with the US,

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Speaker 2: anything to avoid those reciprocal tariffs that President Trump has

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Speaker 2: put on hold for a few months. Our reporting suggests

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Speaker 2: that a much smaller number of actual negotiations are happening,

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Speaker 2: and indeed, President Trump and China's President Shijingping can't even

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Speaker 2: agree on whether they've talked to each other at all.

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Speaker 2: But as Treasury Secretary Scott Besnant hinted in that interview

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Speaker 2: earlier this week that you heard at the start of

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Speaker 2: the show, India's government has been negotiating and may even

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Speaker 2: be close to a deal. Even if that turns out

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Speaker 2: one of the few countries seems to be benefiting from

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Speaker 2: the global economic uncertainty unleashed by President Trump in the

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Speaker 2: last few months. We reported last week that Apple is

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Speaker 2: seeking to import most of the phones it sells in

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Speaker 2: of this year. That's double what it's currently producing in India.

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Speaker 2: And the Indian stock market's one of the very few

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Speaker 2: going to get into how India's Prime Minister, India and

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Speaker 2: also consider how India's long term ambition to replace China

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Speaker 2: massive leg up thanks to Donald Trump. Shrudi Shravastava is

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Speaker 2: have Abhishek Gupta, senior India economists for Bloomberg Economics based

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Speaker 2: Finance and Policy, India's premiere macro finance think tank. And

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Speaker 2: Chris Anstey, Senior editor in Boston who writes our daily

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Speaker 2: economics newsletter and is always across everything in my experience,

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Speaker 2: Chris Abishek Shrudi, thanks very much for coming on Trumpnomics.

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Speaker 3: It's a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: I do want to start the conversation with you because

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Speaker 2: you had a big scoop last week about what was

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Speaker 2: potentially in this US India trade deal, and we should say,

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Speaker 2: so just get us up to speed. What do we

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Speaker 2: is it, you know, how far it's gone in just

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Speaker 1: Things have indeed been moving very fast when it comes

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Speaker 1: This has been said by several officials in Washington. Officials

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, so all those things basically they showcase that

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Speaker 1: they are looking to discuss greater market access for Indian

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Speaker 2: India is a country that's kind of been famous for

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Speaker 1: Shruti, one of the trade experts we spoke to, said

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Stephanie. That is what we are seeing is unfolding

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Speaker 2: But they're not just talking about it. People genuinely think

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Speaker 1: So I've been talking to these exporters, and I have

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Speaker 1: it seems it's going to happen now. And India has

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Shusy. That's fantastic. If I was

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Speaker 2: And just remind us, even before the deal, when those

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Speaker 2: you pointed out Abishek, I think that the Indian exports

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Speaker 3: So yes, the initial tartifs which were imposed, India got

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Speaker 3: But even countries a Vietnam which was forty percent plus

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Speaker 2: Chris, you wrote about some of this and particularly companies

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Speaker 3: I think you already know I'm a very big optimist

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Speaker 3: Now I see this more of a geopolitical security perspective

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Speaker 4: So perhaps Abishek India could be considered from an international

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Speaker 1: on the money being diverted to India. We have still

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Speaker 1: not been able to manage, you know, factor market, market reforms,

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Speaker 1: grouses of these companies. It's still very difficult to acquire

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Speaker 1: land in India. The labor laws are not very friendly

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Speaker 1: with the companies which operate here. So these are some

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Speaker 1: of the things which the Moodi government is yet to do.

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Speaker 1: So I think there is excitement about the opportunity that

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Speaker 1: So I think the people investors want to wait and

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Speaker 2: That is a very useful note of caution, Shreuty. It

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Speaker 2: is true that amid all this talk of you know,

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Speaker 2: there's no winners from trade wars, if you listen to

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Speaker 2: this conversation, you might think there were some gains to

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Speaker 2: be had for India and the US in the deal

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Speaker 2: that seems to be in the offering. But what's true

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Speaker 2: for Indian companies is also true for businesses around the world.

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Speaker 2: No one quite knows what they can count on. Shruty,

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Speaker 2: Abishek and Chris, thank you so mu.

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