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The recent election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers a unique opportunity to reset the dialogue between the United States and India and work toward a constructive and mutually beneficial economic and commercial relationship, according to panelists during an event on the future of India’s trade and economic policies hosted by the Informat...

Bloomberg Modi’s Win Raises Hopes for Better U.S.-India Trade Ties May 16, 2014 By Gopal Ratnam and Brian Wingfield   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-17/modi-s-win-raises-hopes-for-better-u-s-india-trade-ties.html Narendra Modi’s sweeping victory inIndia’s elections may translate into revitalized U.S.-India bilateral ...

The Hill Business groups keep eye on India after change in leadership May 16, 2014 By Vicki Needham http://thehill.com/policy/finance/206392-business-groups-keep-eye-on-india-after-change-in-leadership   Businesses groups are keeping a close eye on India as the nation undergoes a change of leadership many hope will rekindle a strong ...

The Innovation Files 2014 Special 301 Report Highlights Continuing Concerns over India’s Protection of Foreign IP Rights May 1, 2014 By: Stephen Ezell The United States Trade Representative Office’s (USTR’s) 2014 Special 301 Report, released April 30, again places India on the Priority Watch List, highlighting continuing ...

Forbes Restore The Indian Economic Miracle By Attracting Foreign Investment May 30, 2014 By Stephen Ezell —Stephen Ezell is a Senior Analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. In his 2005 best-selling novel, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman wrote about the rapid rise of India, recalling an evening in ...

Politico Pro ITIF analysis: India should drop localization policies, join trade talks April 22, 2014 By ERIC BRADNER India needs to drop its policies that promote domestically manufactured goods over foreign competition and smooth out its regulatory process on the regional, state and federal levels in order to spur innovation in the ...

Idaho Press-Tribune Time to get tough on India for stealing our stuff April 20, 2014 By: Phil Kerpen Quite simply, from pharmaceuticals to motion pictures to software, India is stealing our stuff. India ranks dead last among major economies in protection of intellectual property rights, according to a comprehensive analysis by the U.S. ...

India's assault on patents doesn't just hurt its trading partners. It also hurts India. By Holger Krahmer March 23, 2014 2:53 p.m. ET http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304679404579456672440016300 The European Union is among India's top trading partners. Commerce between EU nations and India more than doubled between ...

By Christopher Moore, Senior Director for International Business Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers How can India grow its emerging electronics equipment and ICT manufacturing sector? Not with a costly and discriminatory Preferential Market Access (PMA) policy. That’s what Stephen Ezell concludes in a paper released by the ...

February 21, 2014 By: Matthew Perrone The head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that her agency will add more inspectors in India to better monitor drugs from the country's burgeoning pharmaceutical industry, even as her agency also seeks closer cooperation from Indian regulators. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the FDA ...