New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- India and the US are in the last stretch of finalizing their highly anticipated trade deal, India's external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday.

Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2026, Jaishankar said there are few outstanding concerns on New Delhi's end, and that most of the recent changes have come from the American side.

"We really have the bulk of the issues sorted out. There are the last stretch of issues. And in many cases, these concerns are not so much at our end because the changes have been more at the American end than ours. So, the hope is that we should close it out soon."

He noted that India wants a trade deal which, apart from being mutually beneficial, gives it a compara...