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The Dollar Business Bureau India and the United States are holding the 10th edition of India-United States Trade Policy Forum (TPF) on October 19-20, 2016 in India. United States Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman will lead a high level delegation on his visit to India.  The Trade Policy Forum meeting has focused on increased bilateral interaction and momentum on resolving trade concerns under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United States President Obama. “As part of the annual work plan jointly agreed between India and US working groups on agriculture, trade in services and goods, promotion of investment in manufacturing and intellectual property has been meeting with an intention of understanding the best practices, facilitating investment and raising concerns relating to the trade,” the Ministry ...

Not just US companies, Indian companies are also voicing similar concerns, US Ambassador Richard Verma said Source: PTI In 2005, the two-way trade between the countries was about $35 billion, which exceeded to $105 billion last year   Problems related to ease of doing business such as taxation, regulatory burdens and legal issues can deter American investors from investing in India, US Ambassador Richard Verma said on Thursday even as he hoped that the $500 billion bilateral trade target would be achieved. On the trade and investment front, we have been taking up the ease of doing business factors that sometimes can deter the US companies and investors such as tax and legal certainty and easing regulatory burdens. I think we are making progress in ...

Source: PTI With the US keen on accelerating the BIT negotiations process, India has shared with it the draft copy of the proposed bilateral investment treaty that awaits Cabinet approval. During the US-India Trade Policy Forum (TPF) meeting that concluded on Thursday, Indian officials told their American counterparts that they would be in a better position to talk on it once the draft of the model text for the bilateral investment treaty (BIT) is approved by the Cabinet. “In fact, they wanted us to have a detailed talk on it. The investment treaty is awaiting Cabinet clearance. Draft copies (of BIT) were exchanged,” Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Indian reporters at the conclusion of ninth round of India-US TPF, which she co-chaired with the ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau India has asked the United States to set up a separate working group to discuss non-tariff barriers faced by certain Indian textile products and issues of market access for pharmaceuticals and agricultural products in the US. Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia raised these issues during her meeting with US Deputy USTR Ambassador Robert Holleyman on Tuesday. The meeting was held in New Delhi to deliberate on the agenda setting, modalities and dates for convening the 9th round of the ministerial level meeting of the Trade Policy Forum (TPF) – a bilateral forum to enhance economic partnership between the two countries. The ministerial level meeting of the forum is likely to be held in the US by the ...