New Delhi, March 26 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India and the US had a "very open discussion" on trade and the result of that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump agreed to conclude bilateral trade agreement by fall this year.

In conversation with Kyung-wha Kang of Asia Society in Delhi on Wednesday, Jaishankar mentioned that there has been a "very active and intense trade discussion" between India and the US at this point and recalled the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal's visit to the US in February.

Asked about trade agreements between India and US, Jaisahnkar responded, "When we went to Washington in February when Prime Minister went and the discussions that he had wi...