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Tai was in India to hitch the G20 commerce ministers’ assembly final week within the western state of Rajasthan
U.S. commerce chief Katherine Tai has raised issues with India over the Asian nation’s new order mandating licenses for the import of laptops, tablets and private computer systems, in keeping with an announcement.
Tai’s intervention comes amid worries the licensing regime might impression shipments from the likes of Apple and Dell and drive corporations to spice up native manufacturing.
“She famous that there have been stakeholders that wanted a possibility to evaluate and supply enter to make sure that the coverage, if carried out, doesn’t have an adversarial impression on U.S. exports to India,” as per the U.S. assertion issued after Tai met with India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on August 26.
Tai was in India to hitch the G20 commerce ministers’ assembly final week within the western state of Rajasthan.
India’s new licensing regime, which is because of come into impact on November 1, goals to “guarantee trusted {hardware} and techniques” enter the nation. It additionally seeks to scale back dependence on imports, enhance native manufacturing, and partly deal with the nation’s commerce imbalance with China, in keeping with an Indian authorities official.
India and the U.S. can even proceed discussions to discover a resolution to the one bilateral dispute between the 2 nations on the World Commerce Organisation, which includes measures by New Delhi on sure agricultural imports into the nation, in keeping with the assertion. Six different disputes had been mutually resolved earlier this yr.
First Revealed: Aug 27 2023 | 7:34 PM IST
