January 18, 2023 Arlington, VA – Today, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a grant to Indian internet service provider AirJaldi Networks for a feasibility study to help expand broadband connectivity to more than 30 million people in rural and peri-urban communities across India. AirJaldi selected Georgia-based Vernonburg Group LLC to conduct the study. ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 19 January, 2023 | Topics: Press Releases, Trade | Tags: Press Release, Trade, USTDA
January 18, 2023 Arlington, VA – Today, U.S. Trade and Development Agency Director Enoh T. Ebong launched the Interstate Clean Energy Procurement Program (ICEPP) in New Delhi, India. ICEPP will advance the development of clean energy infrastructure in eight Indian states through targeted training for public procurement officials on best value and life-cycle cost analysis. ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 19 January, 2023 | Topics: Press Releases, Trade | Tags: Press Release, Trade, USTDA
Media Note: Office of the Spokesperson January 10, 2023 Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu will travel to India and Bangladesh January 12-15, for meetings on a range of priorities including energy, trade, security cooperation, religious freedom, labor, and human rights. In India, the Assistant Secretary will participate in ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 11 January, 2023 | Topics: Press Releases, South & Central Asia, Trade | Tags: Press Release, Security, Trade
India and the United States held the twelfth Ministerial-level meeting of the India-United States Trade Policy Forum (TPF) in New Delhi on November 23, 2021. Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal and U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai co-chaired the TPF meeting. The Ministers convened the TPF with a view to advancing ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 23 November, 2021 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Trade
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai today joined Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal to re-launch the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum (TPF) in New Delhi. This was the 12th TPF Ministerial, and the the first since 2017. Ambassador Tai and Minister Goyal shared views on a range of bilateral trade concerns, and agreed to ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 23 November, 2021 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Trade
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai today attended a welcome reception in New Delhi hosted by India’s Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Piyush Goyal. Ambassador Tai’s opening remarks as prepared for delivery are below: Minister Goyal, thank you for the kind introduction. I want to begin ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 23 November, 2021 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Trade
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Deputy United States Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi yesterday met with India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Commerce Secretary B.V.R Subrahmanyam. Ambassadors Tai and Bianchi expressed their appreciation to the Government of India, and to Minister Goyal personally, for the warm welcome they have received in ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 23 November, 2021 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Trade
The United States Government, in partnership with the Government of India, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of Indian Industry, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC), is sponsoring the fourth annual Indo-Pacific Business Forum (IPBF), which will take place this year as a fully online ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 29 July, 2021 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Business, Trade
(As Delivered) Thank you, Ken, for the kind introduction, and for your leadership in strengthening the bonds between the world’s oldest and the world’s biggest democracies. It is great to see all the wonderful American companies here in New Delhi for the Trade Winds Conference and Trade Mission. Welcome, everyone. I know you have all ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 7 May, 2019 | Topics: Speeches | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Business, Trade
WASHINGTON – The
U.S. Commercial Service will bring more than 100 U.S. companies to India as part of the
U.S. Department of Commerce ’s largest annual trade mission program, Trade Winds. Trade Winds Indo-Pacific features a three-day business forum in New Delhi, India, with additional trade mission stops in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Bangladesh. At each mission stop, attending ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 6 May, 2019 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Trade
Remarks by: Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj Minister of Defense Nirmala Sitharaman MINISTER SWARAJ: (Via interpreter) Secretary of State Mr. Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mr. Mattis, my cabinet colleague Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman, ladies and gentlemen, and my friends from the media: We have just ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 7 September, 2018 | Topics: Press Releases, Speeches, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Defense, Michael R. Pompeo, Trade
Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and Minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman welcomed Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis to India on September 6, 2018, for the inaugural U.S.-India Ministerial 2+2 Dialogue. They welcomed the launch of the 2+2 Dialogue as a reflection of the shared commitment by ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 7 September, 2018 | Topics: Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Defense, Michael R. Pompeo, Trade
Remarks by: Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj Minister of Defense Nirmala Sitharaman MINISTER SWARAJ: Secretary of State Mr. Michael Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mr. James Mattis, my esteemed colleague Nirmala Sitharaman, Excellencies: I extend a very warm welcome to you to India. We are ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 7 September, 2018 | Topics: Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Defense, Michael R. Pompeo, Trade
The below is attributable to Spokesperson Heather Nauert: Secretary Pompeo met today in New Delhi, India with Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj ahead of the opening of the 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. Secretary Pompeo and Minister Swaraj discussed joint efforts to promote a rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific. The Secretary and Minister Swaraj also ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 7 September, 2018 | Topics: Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Defense, Michael R. Pompeo, Trade
Introduction Good afternoon and welcome. I would like to thank Minister Piyush Goyal, Chairman Ashwani Lohani, and Principal Executive Director for Infrastructure S.K. Mishra for hosting us at Rail Bhavan. We are honored to be here today, and I am grateful that so many of your distinguished colleagues could join us for this discussion. I ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 13 August, 2018 | Topics: Speeches | Tags: Ambassador Speeches, Bilateral relationship, Business, Trade
U.S.-India Relations: Building a Durable Partnership for the 21st Century Dr. Mohan: Good afternoon. I’m Raja Mohan, the Director for Carnegie India. I’d like to welcome you all for this very special session with the new U.S. Ambassador to India, Kenneth Juster. He’s the new Ambassador, but I think he’s an old friend of India’s, ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 12 January, 2018 | Topics: Ambassador, Policy, U.S. & India | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Business, Counterterrorism, Defense, Energy, GOI, Innovation, Regional Security, Trade
International Trade Administration Office of Public Affairs (202) 482-4883
publicaffairs@doc.gov On October 27, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu met to discuss the U.S.-India commercial relationship and launch their first session of the U.S.-India Commercial Dialogue. Upon noting the impressive three-fold increase in total U.S.-India trade since 2005, both sides affirmed the significant strategic and economic ...
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By U.S. Mission India | 27 October, 2017 | Topics: Commercial Affairs, Press Releases, U.S. & India | Tags: Business, Economic growth, Trade
ITC Maurya Hotel | September 28, 2017 (As Prepared for Delivery) Good Morning. On behalf of the United States Embassy in New Delhi, I am honored to welcome you to Passage to Prosperity, the India-Afghanistan Trade and Investment Show. It is a privilege to share the dais with this esteemed group. That you have taken the ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 28 September, 2017 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, U.S. & India | Tags: Business, Economic growth, Trade
ITC Maurya Hotel | September 27, 2017 (As Prepared for Delivery) On behalf of the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi, India, I am honored to welcome you to the Passage to Prosperity, the India-Afghanistan Trade and Investment Show. I also want to give a very special welcome to our esteemed guests from ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 27 September, 2017 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, U.S. & India | Tags: Business, Trade
The White House Office of the Vice President Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium Washington, D.C. 11:00 A.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Chairman Chambers, President Aghi, Ambassador Sarna, Ambassador Roemer, distinguished Members of Congress who joint us here today. It is an honor to join you for the 42nd Annual Leadership Summit of the U.S.-India ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 27 June, 2017 | Topics: Speeches, U.S. & India, Vice President of the United States | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Business, Mike Pence, Trade
(As Prepared for Delivery) Good Afternoon. I am very pleased to see so many of you here at the American Center for this Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016 gathering. We are deeply grateful to Special Secretary Y.S. Malik for having taken time out of his extremely hectic schedule to join us. Entrepreneurship is a major feature ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 16 November, 2016 | Topics: Business, Doing Business in the U.S., Former U.S. Ambassadors, Press Releases, Speeches, U.S. & India | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Economic growth, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Trade
Remarks by U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman at the University of Chicago Center in Delhi Nearly seventy years ago, Prime Minister Nehru stood before the Constituent Assembly on the occasion of India’s independence to describe his vision of the future: a nation whose freedom, forged in its “suffering and sacrifice,” would serve as a ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 20 October, 2016 | Topics: Speeches, U.S. & India | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Economic growth, Trade
Minister of Commerce and Industry of India Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman and U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman met in Delhi on October 20, 2016, for the tenth ministerial-level meeting of the India and United States Trade Policy Forum (TPF). The Ministers agreed that the TPF has greatly strengthened U.S. – India engagement on bilateral trade ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 20 October, 2016 | Topics: Press Releases, U.S. & India | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Economic growth, Intellectual Property, Trade
1. India and the United States held the second India-U.S. Strategic and Commercial Dialogue in New Delhi today. External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry of India Nirmala Sitharaman co-chaired the dialogue with U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. ...
Read More» By U.S. Mission India | 30 August, 2016 | Topics: Press Releases, U.S. & India | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Climate, Energy, GOI, Health, Innovation, Smart Cities, Tourism, Trade
Commercial Diplomacy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (As prepared for delivery) Thank you Ron Summers for that kind introduction. Ron has been a steadfast champion of the U.S.-India relationship for many years and it’s an honor to have him lead today’s discussion. I would also like to recognize Peter Tichansky for his leadership at the Business Council ...
Read More» By U.S. Embassy New Delhi | 3 August, 2016 | Topics: Former U.S. Ambassadors, Speeches | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Trade
Taking US/India Trade to the Next Level The Atlantic Council U.S.-India Trade Initiative Workshop Remarks by Ambassador Richard R. Verma (As prepared for delivery) Good morning everyone. It is a sincere pleasure to be with you all here today for the inaugural U.S.-India Trade Initiative Workshop. Thank you, Governor Huntsman, for that warm welcome. Governor ...
Read More» By U.S. Embassy New Delhi | 27 June, 2016 | Topics: Press Releases | Tags: Bilateral relationship, Nuclear, Security, Trade
