US vice-president JD Vance is set to visit India on a four-day official tour, during which he will meet the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, and discuss the terms of a bilateral trade deal.
Mr Modi enjoys warm relations with Mr Vance’s boss Donald Trump, but the US president has also called India the “tariff king” and a “big abuser” and targeted the country with a blanket 26 per cent levy as part of his now-paused tariff programme.