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Women Impacting Public Policy: Keep Your Guard Up July 26, 2013 By Roz Klann As more women-owned businesses expand into the global marketplace and focus on exporting as a growth opportunity, a critical issue is often overlooked - the role of intellectual property (IP). IP is the set of laws, rules and restrictions that "your stuff" - the goods ...

The Wall Street Journal: Repairing U.S.-Indian Trade Relations July 24, 2013 By E. Ashley Wills U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in India this week, at a time when the U.S.-Indian relationship is at a crossroads. The two countries have developed an increasingly close economic and strategic relationship that benefits both and promotes ...

AFP: Afghanistan, trade dominate Biden talks in India July 23, 2013 By Christian Otton NEW DELHI — US Vice President Joe Biden held talks with Indian leaders on Tuesday as he sought to calm fears over the exit of American troops from Afghanistan and capitalise on growing investment opportunities. Biden met his counterpart Hamid Ansari ...

The Economic Times: Press Trust of India July 22, 2013 WASHINGTON: More than 40 American business organisations today asked US Vice President Joe Biden, who is on a visit to India, to raise with the Indian leadership their concerns over the country's trade and intellectual property protection policies. In a letter to the Vice President, ...

Business Standard: US companies ask Biden to raise concerns about Indian policies July 22, 2013 By Doug Palmer More than 40 American business organisations today asked US Vice President Joe Biden, who is on a visit to India, to raise with the Indian leadership their concerns over the country's trade and intellectual property protection ...

Reuters: U.S. business groups urge Biden to press India on concerns July 22, 2013 By Doug Palmer U.S. business groups on Monday urged Vice President Joe Biden to press India's leaders this week to reverse course on a number of government policies they said unfairly harm U.S. companies that do business in the world's largest democracy....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jamie Hennigan (NAM) 202-637-3090| jhennigan@nam.org Trinh Nguyen (GIPC) 202-463-5379 | tnguyen@uschamber.com   AFTI Urges Vice President Biden to Address India’s Damaging Trade Policies for American Businesses and Innovation More than 40 Business Organizations Sign Letter Urging a Dialogue with ...

The Hill: India: Actions have consequences July 22, 2013 By Linda Dempsey & Mark Elliot Differences in Washington abound. But one challenge has unified the Obama Administration, Congress and the business community over the past several weeks: India’s unjustifiable discrimination against U.S. exports, intellectual property, and ...

NY Daily News: India, US to Hold Dialogue on Trade and Investment Issues July 12, 2013 By Arun Kumar Washington, July 12 — With a growing trust deficit muddling their business relations, India and the United States have agreed to prepare for a policy dialogue on trade and investment issues at the ministerial level. Visiting Indian ...

Reuters: U.S. Trad Chief Urges India to Heed U.S. Companies Complaints July 11, 2013 (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman urged India on Thursday to reverse course on policies that he said discriminated against American companies and that were fraying relations between the world's two largest democracies. "Let me stress ...