India, June 18 -- India and the United States are in the final stages of concluding an interim bilateral trade agreement, foreign secretary Vikram Misri said on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump discussed trade on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in France.

"With the United States, we have made significant progress already on the conclusion of an interim bilateral trade agreement. We are in the final stages of concluding that agreement," Misri told reporters in a press conference on Thursday, adding that US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will visit India next week to take the discussions forward.

Misri said the proposed trade pact figured prominently in the meeting between Modi and Trump...