The US is taking several measures, such as increasing the number of staffers, to further facilitate the issuance of business visas in India, a senior US government official said on Tuesday. "We have also made significant progress by issuing more H1B and L visas in 2022 than we did even in 2019 before the pandemic. "This is a significant improvement. We are in the process of raising our staff," Arun Venkataraman, US Assistant Secretary of Commerce for global markets, said.
'Nobody ever said that moving from US-India estrangement to partnership would be easy. Constant engagement at all levels on disparate issues is necessary to build a strong friendship that is in the interests of both nations.'
Yet another US trade delegation to India to seek beach-head on the envisaged energy market.
The Indo-US CEO forum which is scheduled to meet in New York later this year is expected to discuss some contentious issues related to the trade and investment between the two countries, David Bohigian, US assistant secretary of commerce said at an interactive session with the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce.
The United States is optimistic India will support Washington's plan to eliminate global tariffs on manufactured goods despite New Delhi's opposition to the proposal, a senior US official said on Wednesday.
Expressing concern over slowdown of trade with India, United States said bilateral trade between the two countries could go up by a further $38 billion by 2015 if India accelerated its economic reforms to match the US endeavour.
To mark Prime Minister Modi's seventh meeting with Obama and his historic joint address to US Congress -- the sixth Indian PM to do so -- India Abroad, the newspaper published from New York and owned by rediff.com, reached out to diplomats and strategic thinkers in New Delhi and Washington, DC, to assess the current state of the US-India relationship and suggest a road map for the future.
Exports to India support 180,000 US jobs.
Both Obama and Modi have taken bold steps towards laying the groundwork to give a big push to Indo-US trade, and now it's time to execute, says Bikash Mohapatra.
'In his eulogy at Sandy's memorial service, President Clinton recounted the unusually hot US Independence Day, July 4, 1999, when most of official Washington was more interested in watching fireworks than international diplomacy. Sandy insisted that Clinton confront Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in no uncertain terms.' Former US Assistant Secretary Raymond E Vickery, Jr salutes Sandy Berger, Clinton's National Security Adviser, as a true friend of India.
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