美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥周一表示，华盛顿与印度的贸易协议谈判进展顺利，双方“非常接近”达成最终协议。
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that Washington is "very close" to finalizing a trade deal with India.
“我们目前正努力与印度达成一项贸易协议。我们离达成协议非常近了，”卢比奥在乌兹别克斯坦城市撒马尔罕说。他将在那里会见中亚地区的同僚，随后于周二启程对印度进行为期三天的访问。
“We're trying to finalize a trade deal with India right now. We're very close to doing that," Rubio said in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, where he will be meeting with his Central Asian counterparts before embarking on a three-day visit to India on Tuesday.
他预计将抵达印度金融中心孟买，随后前往古吉拉特邦西部城市贾姆纳加尔参观世界上最大的单一场地炼油厂。
He is expected to arrive in India's financial hub Mumbai and later visit the world’s largest single-site oil refinery in Jamnagar, a city in western state of Gujarat state.
谈及俄罗斯石油和天然气时，卢比奥表示，华盛顿决定豁免制裁，因为这些制裁可能对全球能源供应和价格产生影响。
On Russian oil and gas, Rubio said Washington had decided to waive sanctions due to their potential impact on global energy supplies and prices.
“我们必须妥善处理所有这些问题。我们目前正努力与印度达成一项贸易协议。我们离达成协议非常近了。这是总统（唐纳德·特朗普）在决定国家安全豁免及类似事项时需要考虑的因素之一，”他说。
"We have to manage all of these things. We're trying to finalize a trade deal with India right now. We're very close to doing that. That's one of the things we take into consideration when the President (Donald Trump) makes a decision about national security waivers and things of that nature," he said.
他指出，每个国家都有一套“复杂的因素集合”，需要在决策中予以考虑。
Every country, he observed, has a "complex set of factors" that it has to take into account.
“地理因素是客观存在的。对于一些国家来说，从替代来源获取能源非常困难。这不是借口，但在制定外交政策时，所有这些因素都必须得到平衡，”他坚持称。
"Geography is real. For some countries, it's very difficult to acquire energy from alternative sources. That's not an excuse, but all of that has to be balanced when making foreign policy," he maintained.
美国和印度今年2月宣布，双方已就一项临时框架协议达成一致，旨在解决双边贸易争端。
The US and India announced in February that they had reached terms on an interim framework deal aimed at resolving a bilateral trade dispute.
上周，印度商务部长皮尤什·戈亚尔表示，印美贸易协议的第一阶段已完成谈判，目前正在进行“法律起草”。他曾在新德里的一个活动中表示：“我们希望尽快完成该阶段的工作，并在相较于同业国家获得可比优势或竞争优势后将其付诸实施。”
Last week, Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said the first tranche of the India-US trade deal has been finalized and is undergoing “legal drafting.”“We hope to be able to finalize that soon and operationalize that once we get the comparable advantage or competitive advantage over our peer countries,” Goyal had told an event in New Delhi.
去年，由于特朗普政府对印度商品征收50%的关税，美印关系紧张升级，部分原因在于印度在俄乌战争期间继续购买俄罗斯石油。
Tensions between the US and India had escalated last year over 50% tariffs imposed on Indian goods by Trump administration, partly over India’s continued purchases of Russian oil amid the Russia-Ukraine war.
两国维持着全面全球战略伙伴关系，去年双边贸易总额约为1494亿美元。
Bilateral trade between the two countries, which maintain a comprehensive global strategic partnership, totaled around $149.4 billion last year.