Washington, Oct. 22 -- US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that a trade deal with India was "pretty close", adding that the agreement would be "different" from the pacts his country has signed with others. His remarks come alongside similar statements from his secretary of state Marco Rubio, who indicated on Tuesday that a trade deal was imminent. "They want to make a deal. We're going to make a deal. Pretty close, yeah," Trump said when asked by reporters at the White House about the prospects for an agreement. The president said it "could be a much different kind of deal," without elaborating. There has been renewed optimism about the deal in comments by Indian and US officials in recent weeks. "We're very, very close. We're about as close as you can be without having an executed agreement. There's a small number of items left to wrap up, I think that will happen shortly," Rubio told reporters on Monday. Rubio added that the two sides were finalising language on the trade deal, emphasising the need to have agreement on "every detail" before the deal was announced. US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said last week in Delhi that the "the big items are done" and that the two countries are very close to "landing it." That followed remarks by external affairs minister S Jaishankar in which he said he was encouraged by progress in trade talks and that both sides were "heading toward a landing point." New Delhi and Washington have remained closely engaged in trade talks over the last months. Prime Minister Modi and President Trump discussed trade issues during their latest phone call on September 30. Commerce minister Piyush Goyal met with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on the sidelines of the G20 trade ministerial earlier in October, where the two discussed advancing the trade deal. The upbeat comments come weeks after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on October 5 said talks had reached a "plateau" and that further give-and-take would be "very, very difficult" for both sides. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said earlier this month that he did not expect a trade deal to be signed imminently....