Trump aims for fair trade deal with India this year

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration wants to bring down the U.S. trade deficit with India and hopes to have a fair bilateral trade deal with New Delhi in place in 2025, Trump administration officials said ahead of a summit between President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.

Trump's meeting with Modi will aim to build on defense sales to ensure they are prioritizing American technology and the two sides are moving toward signing a new defense framework, one official said in a briefing for journalists ahead of the talks in Washington on Thursday afternoon.

(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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