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India recently imposed a new levy on foreign billings, or transactions where companies take payment abroad for digital services provided in India. Roger Murry of the Alliance for Fair Trade with India (AFTI) was quoted in Reuters on the new tax. The new levy came out of nowhere ... It will disrupt India’s trade relations perhaps in ways the ...

Atul Varadhachary writes an opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle explaining why India must enact policy changes that reward investment in biopharmaceutical innovation: India must expedite the implementation of formal policy changes, especially for regulatory and intellectual property protection reforms, that reward investment in biopharmaceu...

Amir Ullah Khan writes for the Economic Times why an environment that incentivizes innovations will ensure global research-based companies continue to address India’s unmet healthcare needs: To ensure that global research-based companies continue to address India’s unmet healthcare needs, what is needed is an environment that incentivises ...

Ashish Bharadwaj writes at Firstpost why trade differences threaten to "cast a shadow on the bilateral relationship that India and the US have successfully nurtured" over the past two decades: India and the US ought to realize that a trade war is contrary to the economic goals that both have laid out of creating jobs, boosting manufacturing and ...

The bottom line is that the India-US relationship is far too valuable to be frittered away through pig-headedness on eminently resolvable trade issues. Both the US and India have a lot more to lose if the relationship frays than they will if they work out a deal involving compromise and give-and-take.

The Alliance for Fair Trade with India (AFTI) released the following statement concerning the U.S. government’s decision to suspend India’s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits:  “We regret that Indian officials failed to constructively engage with U.S. negotiators on the numerous serious trade challenges plaguing the bilate...

Welcoming the renewal of a programme which allows most Indian imports to enter the US duty free, a trade advocacy group has said it will empower Americans negotiators against their Indian counterparts as part of the Omnibus Spending Bill. US President Donald Trump signed the legislation to renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) ...

A letter, signed by Brian Pomper, AFTI executive director, cites price controls, forced localisation, technical barriers to trade and intellectual property barriers as the issues of significant concern that US industries face in India. Ahead of the India-US Trade Policy Forum meeting, an influential business advocacy group asked the Trump ...

The Alliance for Fair Trade with India wants the Trump administration to knock down market access barriers India has erected, focusing on price controls, localization requirements, standards issues and intellectual property in a letter sent to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer ahead of the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum and Commercial ...

By Adam Behsudi An alliance of U.S. business and industry groups is urging U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to address four areas of concern when he meets with his Indian counterparts for this week's U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum and Commercial Dialogue meeting. https://www.politicopro.com/trade/whiteboard/2017/10/us-businesses...