Boris Johnson is hoping to strike a free trade deal with India within months.
When it comes to these discussions, though, both India and the UK have wishlists - and they could prove to be big hurdles to reaching the finish line.
Under the new post-Brexit points-based immigration regime, over 60,000 Indians received skilled-worker visas last year, around two-fifths of the total. Amitendu Palit from the National University of Singapore, who was previously at India's Ministry of Finance thinks the UK will need to go further, allowing more Indian professionals into the UK for longer periods of time.
Given Prime Minister Modi's stance towards Putin's Russia in recent weeks - India has a stated policy of non-alignment over Ukraine - some are querying whether a trade deal is desirable at all.
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