America for growing trade with India |
The rising imbalance in trade with India is a concern for America and India must open its market to more American companies, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said .Mr. Ross said India must also take more effective measures to protect innovation by improving its intellectual property protections. The Commerce Secretary was addressing a gathering at the U.S.-India Business Council on the forthcoming Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Hyderabad in November. U.S. President and Indian Prime Minister have announced to co-host this year`s GES in Hyderabad and theyreiterated the importance of close relations between our two growing economies. Annual bilateral trade between the U.S. and India has doubled over the last decade and was $114 billion in 2016. Unfortunately, over the same period, trade deficit tripled, now at $27 billion. The US would naturally want to see growing and balanced trade, Mr. Ross said, noting some of the recent developments such as the Spice Jet order for 120 planes from Boeing as signs of the Indian market`s promise. He said the imbalance was visible in investments as well. While India`s investors invested $12.1 billion in the U.S. last year, U.S. investors invested $32.9 billion in India.
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