Since early 2025, India and the U.S. have been negotiating a bilateral trade agreement (BTA), which promises to be the largest and most extensive free trade agreement India has negotiated thus far. The BTA was announced through the United States-India Joint Leaders’ Statement, and the first tranche of this mutually beneficial, multi-sector agreement was to be negotiated by the fall of 2025 (https://bit.ly/4wXiUdI). However, with President Donald Trump and his administration spending most of 2025 pursuing aggressive unilateralism…