<h1>Sovereignty concerns over trade pact: alleged compromise of farmers, regulatory protections and energy procurement autonomy.</h1> The proposed India-US framework is alleged to compromise sovereignty and economic self reliance by opening India's agricultural market to zero duty US farm and food products, permitting duty free imports of specified processed grains, oils and cotton that threaten domestic producers, and by requiring removal of non tariff barriers which could erode subsidies, regulatory protections and seed biodiversity; it is also said to constrain energy security by limiting procurement autonomy and imposing large bilateral purchase commitments.