Washington, ANI. US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Deputy US Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi will visit India on November 22. Here he will meet
government officials and discuss strengthening trade ties between the Indo-Pacific region and the two countries. Both of them will also visit Japan’s capital Tokyo on 15 November and South Korea’s capital Seoul on 18 November. After this, on November 24, Tai and Bianchi will return to Washington.
Recently, China’s top trade negotiator Liu He held talks with US Trade Representative Catherine Tai on the first phase of the trade deal. American-Chinese Tai can speak Mandarin fluently and she previously oversaw Chinese trade enforcement for the Office of the US Trade Representative.
Last month, the chair of a top India-focused trade advocacy group said that a free trade agreement is the next frontier in Indo-US ties and it is not logical for the world’s two largest economies that they do not have a trade structure, although it does not. The road is full of all kinds of obstacles.
US-India Business Council (USIBC) chairperson and former US diplomat Nisha Desai Biswal, who attended a dinner hosted by Indiaspora last month, made these remarks on the trade relationship between the two countries.
“The time has come for us to get serious about what the next frontier is in US-India relations,” he said. And neither for the US, nor for India, it is logical for these two largest economies of the world to be outside the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and not have a trade structure between them.
The TPP is a trade initiative of the countries of the Pacific Rim (the geographical area adjacent to the Pacific Ocean). Its 11 members include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and New Zealand.
