India, April 24 -- India remains "a tough nut to crack" on agriculture but the two sides can find mutually agreed common ground, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a congressional committee, as an Indian trade delegation led by chief negotiator Darpan Jain was in Washington for a three-day round of face-to-face talks-the first in six months.

Greer was answering queries from Congressman Randy Feenstra at a hearing on the Trump administration's 2026 trade policy agenda before the House ways and means committee on Tuesday.

Feenstra, who represents Iowa's 4th congressional district and sits on both the ways and means and agriculture committees, pressed Greer on access to India's agricultural market and on exports of animal feed pro...