New Delhi, April 20 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and a senior commerce ministry official will be in the US next week for engagements with the Trump administration, officials said on Saturday, embarking on separate but simultaneous visits that are part of a two-pronged approach by New Delhi to deepen economic engagement with potential trade partners.
The engagements in America, similar to recent talks with the European Union and the UK, are part of a carefully calibrated approach: the finance minister leads efforts to smoothen talks while commerce minister Piyush Goyal's teams engage in hard bargaining, these people said.
"These visits may appear isolated and coincidental at first glance, but the current leadership in New D...