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Is India “Open For Business”? Members of Congress, policy experts, economists, and industry leaders gathered at the Newseum in downtown Washington, D.C., yesterday morning for a policy breakfast briefing event to examine an important question: “Is India Open For Business?” after the first year of the Modi government. Sponsored by the ...

Business Standard US lambasts India on IPR, trade policies Alleges that it is adversely impacting American firms present in the country May 6, 2015  By: Nayanima Basu  http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/us-lambasts-india-on-ipr-trade-policies-115050600860_1.html US industry has once again lambasted the ...

By: Evelyn Fok & Varun Aggarwal April 10, 2015 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/One-reason-startups-are-moving-out-of-India/articleshow/46877840.cms BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says Make in India. But anyone who wants to, finds that their intellectual property is valued much more if the patent is filed in ...

On behalf of the many diverse industries we represent, AFTI welcomes USTR’s continued efforts to identify and eliminate trade barriers with India. The recently released 2015 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE) provides further evidence of new and existing discriminatory trade barriers and weak intellectual property ...

Nearly a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landslide election victory, India’s discriminatory trade barriers and weak intellectual property (IP) regime continue to harm U.S. exports of a wide range of products. While India’s new leadership has talked of reform, they have yet to take concrete action to address barriers or to strengt...

India’s Weak IPR Regime Threatens Music, Movies, Medicines and More As federal agencies consider the placement of countries in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s 2015 Special 301 Report, they must keep India on the Priority Watch List. Scheduled for publication at the end of April, the Special 301 report will “identify ...

Bloomberg BNA Trade Groups Hope Obama's India Trip Leads to Stronger Bilateral Trade Ties January 22, 2015 By Lenore T. Adkins Jan. 22 (BNA) -- President Barack Obama's historic trip to India next week is further evidence of renewed engagement between the two countries, which means the time to enhance the U.S.-India trade relationship is ...

Press Trust of India Business environment in India quite different today: GIPC January 23, 2015 The business environment in India is quite different today from before and there is "180 degree change" in the Government's efforts to engage in a dialogue with the international private sector on trade issues, a top US business community has ...

Politico January 23, 2015 THEY LOVE MODI NOW, BUT WILL IT LAST?  After years of grumbling about India’s trade and intellectual property practices, U.S. business groups are sounding much more optimistic ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the world’s largest democracy, all due to one man — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ...

The Hill India’s Republic Day should bring action toward trade reform January 24, 2015 By Patrick Kilbride and Chris Moore Next week, President Obama will travel to New Delhi as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief guest for India’s Republic Day celebration. The invitation is the first ever extended to a U.S. head of state and ...