Rita Teaotia to lead India to JETCO meet

The Dollar Business Bureau

Rita Teaotia is leading a 25 member business delegation to Colombia and Ecuador from May 15-20, 2017 to explore trade and commerce opportunities. The purpose of her visit is to strengthen India’s trade relations with the Latam countries. In Ecuador, the Commerce Secy will be attending the first meeting of JETCO.

The Indian delegation comprising of senior officials from leading Indian companies of pharma, IT, textiles, agro-chemicals, automobiles, telecom, railways and Ayurveda will also be a part of the G2B interaction at Guayaquil, Ecuador scheduled on May 17. The industry reps are likely to share  a summary of their deliberations on the seminar titled, ‘India-Ecuador Business Forum’ held on May 16 at the JETCO meeting.

The business delegation accompanying the Commerce Secy will also participate in the Joint Working Group  and Joint Meeting of Business Development Co-operation (JBDC) beginning May 17 for over two days.

India as an observer country of the Pacific Alliance has  huge investments in Colombia as the country is a gateway to other Pacific Alliance markets such as Chile, Peru and Mexico. The Pacific Alliance contributes almost half of Latin American trade and a third of the regions GDP.