The $500 Billion Pivot: Re-evaluating India's Trade Deficit Under the Shadow of 'America First' Authors Dr. Sachin S. Wazalwar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7811-4556 DOI: https://doi.org/10.64383/editorial.202605 Abstract Recent visit of Marco Rubio, US Secretary of States, successfully inked a deal of 500 billion dollars of goods to be sold to India in the next five years. This will help the US to ease trade tension and to reduce a long pending trade deficit of the US with India. If the deal is exactly what Mr. Rubio told the Indian press then, I must say it was well on the track of Mr. Trump's 'America First' mission. What is there for India? Downloads PDF HTML Published 2026-05-30 How to Cite Wazalwar, S. (2026). The $500 Billion Pivot: Re-evaluating India’s Trade Deficit Under the Shadow of ’America First’. International Research Journal of Scientific Studies, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.64383/editorial.202605 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026): May Section Editorial Categories Economics Political Sociology and Geopolitics License Copyright (c) 2026 Dr. Sachin S. Wazalwar This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors’ Rights: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. Content may be shared, adapted, and used for educational or technical purposes (including TDM) provided the original work is properly cited with a full bibliographic reference and DOI. The work is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which allows others to share and adapt the work, provided the original work and source are properly cited." Integrity: Derivatives must not misrepresent original findings or author intent. DOI: The original DOI must remain intact in all versions.