<p>There has been narrowing of trade differences between India and the US, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, hoping that the two countries be able to enter into a trade deal soon.</p>.<p>"I hope to have an agreement sooner. Obviously narrowing (of difference) is happening," she told a group of Indian reporters.</p>.<p>Sitharaman, who is here to attend the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, was responding to a question on the status of the India-US trade deal currently been negotiated between the two countries.</p>.<p>The commerce ministry is working on it and hopes that the negotiations will get concluded sooner, she said..</p>.<p>"I know the intensity with which the negotiations are going on and a few issues on which they could be some differences are being sorted out. I hope they will be an agreement sooner," she said.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the US Department of Commerce on Thursday said the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross during his recent trip to New Delhi stressed on the positive trends of the US-India trade relationship.</p>.<p>Ross met with the Minister of Commerce and Industry and Railways Piyush Goyal.</p>.<p>He later joined Sitharaman and Goyal in bilateral meetings to advance US commercial interests, the Department of Commerce said.</p>
<p>There has been narrowing of trade differences between India and the US, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, hoping that the two countries be able to enter into a trade deal soon.</p>.<p>"I hope to have an agreement sooner. Obviously narrowing (of difference) is happening," she told a group of Indian reporters.</p>.<p>Sitharaman, who is here to attend the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, was responding to a question on the status of the India-US trade deal currently been negotiated between the two countries.</p>.<p>The commerce ministry is working on it and hopes that the negotiations will get concluded sooner, she said..</p>.<p>"I know the intensity with which the negotiations are going on and a few issues on which they could be some differences are being sorted out. I hope they will be an agreement sooner," she said.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the US Department of Commerce on Thursday said the Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross during his recent trip to New Delhi stressed on the positive trends of the US-India trade relationship.</p>.<p>Ross met with the Minister of Commerce and Industry and Railways Piyush Goyal.</p>.<p>He later joined Sitharaman and Goyal in bilateral meetings to advance US commercial interests, the Department of Commerce said.</p>