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In late 2019, a commission of senior advisers to the Government of India new set of proposals from the High Level Advisory Group (“HLAG”) on trade policy, which was established by India to review trade policy and, calls for reforms on trade, investment, and regulation that would maximize economic growth. Many of the proposals complement ...

The Alliance for Fair Trade with India (“AFTI”) recently outlined the diverse and costly array of major trade barriers American exporters face when trying to enter the Indian market. AFTI provided comments to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) for its 2020 National Trade Estimate Report (“NTE Report”), and ...

India remains a land of high tariffs, impacting U.S.-India trade in significant ways that must be addressed as the two countries continue to work towards the trade deal that U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted last month in Houston. The Alliance for Fair Trade with India (AFTI) works tirelessly for ...

Without meaningful changes to regulatory policies in India, price controls that impact medical devices, pharmaceutical products, among other sectors, will remain costly barriers to trade and investment for U.S. companies in India.  In comments made this year to USTR, AFTI described particular concern with price controls in India.  To this ...

As U.S. and Indian officials prepare for high-level trade talks in Washington, D.C. to determine the future of the trade relationship between the two countries, Roger Murry of the Alliance for Fair Trade with India’s (AFTI) was quoted in World Trade Online on the upcoming talks. “The Alliance for Fair Trade with India is encouraged by ...

India is reported to be looking for ways it can capitalize on the U.S.-China trade war to its own economic benefit, with officials there considering the preferential tax rates and a tax holiday to attract companies eager to leave China in order to escape tariffs imposed by the U.S. on Chinese products. Specific industries targeted by Indian ...

The opportunities for its citizens and the opportunities for companies in the United States are numerous—and they are linked. By using his renewed mandate to enact the types of reforms that will encourage more outside companies to invest their talents and resources in India, Modi can fulfill the promise of his twin victories because it is the Indian people are those who stand to benefit most.

While the recent decision by the U.S. to suspend India’s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits has drawn significant attention, one issue has quietly re-emerged– royalty caps. India’s government is considering imposing royalty caps, severe restrictions on payments to owners of intellectual property such as copyrighted material, ...

Despite some tentative moves to tighten intellectual property (IP) protections and assure greater access to its market for IP-intensive U.S. industries, India continues to drag its feet to address and to fix its IP environment. Consequently, this month, AFTI asked the Office of the United States Trade Representative, as part of its annual Special ...

India has started the new year in a welcome, positive direction with three actions that would, if fully implemented, bolster American exports agricultural biotechnology, medicines, and content creators, important industries for AFTI’s members.  This is a notable shift form the end of 2018, when India backed away from bilateral trade talks. ...