US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker at the event organized by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a top American think tank, has said that ease of doing business, a step initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is a key to boosting Indo-US bilateral trade and also achieve the goal of increasing it to $500 billion. Pritzker further stated that both the countries can only succeed by working together while calling for a heightened engagement between the private sectors of the two countries. Trade ties between the two countries have never been better and the two-way commerce has nearly tripled in recent years with India becoming the fifth fastest source if FDI to America. However, even with these positive steps, India is only America's 11th largest trading partner and 18th largest export market. The commercial relationship between the two countries has not lived up to their enormous potential.
Besides, top corporate leaders from both the countries were scheduled to meet under India-US CEOs Forum to come out with their recommendations to the two governments. The initial work plan focusses on the joint priorities of the two countries, ease of doing business, infrastructure development, innovation and entrepreneurship, standards and global supply chain.
She said that the main objective is to make it easier for foreign and domestic firms to do business in India and the US to deepen the ties of trade and commerce and to strengthen the bilateral commercial bonds in ways that benefits workers and businesses in both countries. By working on these, the two countries could have an extraordinary opportunity to help Modi achieve his vision of lifting hundreds and millions of Indians out of poverty and into the middle class.
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