Chile is open to support Indias candidature for APEC
Aamir H Kaki & Ahmad Shariq Khan Chile is open to support the candidature for India membership to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), said former President of Chile Eduardo Frei Montalva on Wednesday. “However, all the resolutions for the entry of a new country is to be decided by all the members of the forum,” he told The Dollar Business on the sidelines of a seminar on Chile-India Expanded Agreement: Opportunities for Bilateral, Economic, Trade and Investment Relations, in New Delhi. On the question of how the Trade Agreement between the two countries helped in enhancing trade, the Former President said, “First of all, I would like to express that the Trade Agreement that India and Chile was established in 2007, and then expanded ...
US concerned over India as a trading partner
The Dollar Business Bureau The United States listed India under its ‘Priority Watch List’ in an annual special review report on the state of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in US trading partners around the world. In its 2015 Special 301 Report, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) reported inadequacies in trade secret protection in China, India and other countries. Algeria, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Indonesia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela are also included in the Priority Watch List. The report also termed India as the country that serves to illustrate the extent of economic harm arising from trademark counterfeiting to consumers, producers and the governments. Referring to a joint study by The International ...