DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA RAVI DUTTA MISHRA & ANIL SASI NEW DELHI, JULY 1 AS THE India–US trade talks enter their final decisive phase in Washington DC, policy makers here hope that three implicit assumptions of New Delhi materialise,themostimportantbeinga steady differential between the US tariffs on China and India. Despite US President Donald Trump’s vacillations on trade policy, the government is confident that the administration in Washington DC will maintain a differential of 10-20 per cent in tariffs between China and countries such as India. “The deal needs to be clinched precisely for this gap to be maintained,” an official said. The officials said the US is driving hard for market accessin politically sensitive sectors such as agriculture and dairy, and there are strong red lines here. But a section of officials also reckon it isimportanttoensureagooddifferential between the US tariffs on India and China, for which a deal is vital. “The question is whether the Indiannegotiatorswouldhaveto settle for a limited early-harvest FIRST QUAD FOREIGN MINISTERS’ MEET AFTER OP SINDOOR Jaishankar at Quad: India has right to defend against terror Zerotoleranceonterror,victims&perpetratorsmustneverbeequated:Minister SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, JULY 1 From left: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with counterparts Penny Wong (Australia), Takeshi Iwaya (Japan) and Marco Rubio (US) in Washington on Tuesday. AP AT THE first Quad foreign ministers’ meeting after Operation Sindoor in May, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday that India expects its Quad partners to understand and appreciate that the country haseveryrighttodefenditspeople against terrorism, and it will exercise that right. “A word about terrorism in thelightof ourrecentexperience — the world must display zero tolerance. Victims and perpetrators must never be equated. And India has every right to defend its people against terrorism, and we will exercise that right. We expect our Quad partners to understand and appreciate that,” Jaishankarsaid inremarkstothe media ahead of the meeting in Washington DC with his counterparts from the US, Australia and Japan. On April 22, 26 people were killed in a terror attack in Pahalgam. 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