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Late monsoon arrival delays crop sowing in India

Bloomberg The southwest monsoon, which waters more than half of India’s farmland, arrived in the country’s southern coast more than a week later than normal. Monsoon showers reached Kerala on Saturday, said Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, additional director general of Meteorology at India’s Meteorological Department. The department in May had predicted a June first week onset for the June-September rainy period. The ...

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Trump’s trade attack pushes India to negotiating table

Bloomberg India plans to return to the negotiating table after President Donald Trump terminated a trade concession, which allowed the country to export almost 2,000 products to the US duty-free, people with knowledge of the matter said. While an option is to raise tariffs on a slew of US goods as retaliation, India may not choose that considering the benefits ...

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Trump calls off Mexico tariff plan as deal reached on migrants

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he would drop plans for tariffs on Mexico that he’d been threatening to impose for the past week after the country promised new steps to stem an influx of illegal migration into the US. “I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico,” Trump said ...

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