Paris, June 18 -- Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Thursday said that the India-US interim bilateral trade agreement is in its "final stages," with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump pushing for its earliest possible conclusion.

Addressing a briefing following PM Modi's visit to the G7 summit in Evian, France, the Foreign Secretary noted the progress being made on the conclusion of the agreement and emphasised the upcoming visit of US trade representative Jamieson Greer to further the deliberations.

"With the United States, we have made significant progress already on the conclusion of an interim free trade bilateral trade agreement. We are in the final stages of concluding that agreement. Next week in fact the Uni...