Pulses Dropped, Key $500bn Purchase Clause Tweaked In White House Fact Sheet On India-US Trade Deal

Last Updated:February 11, 2026, 08:02 IST

The White House has revised its India trade fact sheet, briefly dropping “pulses” and softening language on a USD 500-billion purchase pledge.

A day after the White House released a fact sheet on the interim India-US trade framework, it has now made notable changes to both commodity references and the strength of language used to describe India’s proposed purchases of American goods, edits that differ from the version released earlier.

In the latest iteration of the document, the White House has altered two key elements.

First, the reference to “pulses" in the list of US agricultural products that India would eliminate or reduce tariffs on was removed in one update, before being reinserted later in a narrower form as “certain pulses."

Second, the phrasing around India’s large-scale procurement of American products was softened in an intermediate revision, shifting from “has committed to buy" to “intends to buy" more than USD 500 billion worth of US goods across sectors such as energy, information and communication technology, agriculture and coal.

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