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President Trump greeted the Indian Prime Minister at the White House with a bear hug and called him “a great friend of mine.”

US President Donald Trump is hosting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House for talks on trade. Modi's two-day visit comes as Trump ordered that US trading partners should face reciprocal tariffs - tit-for-tat import taxes to match similar duties already charged by those countries on American exports.