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Friday, February 14, 2025
Meeting Modi, Trump names Israel as a waypoint on proposed US-India trade route

US President Donald Trump speaks with the press as he meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on February 13, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP)
Continuing a push from his predecessor Joe Biden, US President Donald Trump says he and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi “agreed to work together to help build one of the greatest trade routes in all of the history.”
“It will run from India to Israel to Italy and onward to the US, connecting our partners, roads, railways and undersea cables,” Trump says while meeting Modi at the White House.
In 2023, Biden and Modi announced plans for a transportation corridor that would link India to the European Union via Middle Eastern countries, including Israel.