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Feb
New Delhi (Rajeev Sharma): New Delhi and Washington have decided to defer a high-level meeting of chief trade negotiators originally slated to begin this week in the United States. The Indian delegation, led by Joint Secretary in the Commerce Ministry and chief negotiator Darpan Jain, was scheduled to commence a three-day session on February 23 to finalize the legal text of an interim trade pact. The decision to postpone comes in the wake of a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, which determined that the authority to impose tariffs rests with the US Congress rather than…