In recent weeks both the Democrats and Republicans have intensified their outreach to the Indian American community, in particular in the battle ground states

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According to the data of the commerce ministry, in 2019-20, the bilateral trade between the US and India stood at USD 88.75 billion, as against USD 87.96 billion in 2018-19

The Co-Chairs of the Caucus, US Senators John Cornyn and Mark Warner and US Congress members Brad Sherman and George Holding said that a mini-trade deal will reinforce the confidence and trust needed to realise the true potential of the India-US relationship

Nirmala Sitharaman said that it is imperative that this consensus-based solution should be simple, inclusive and based on a robust economic impact assessment

The paper, authored by Richard Kozul-Wright and Rashmi Banga, estimates the annual online global imports of ET to be $139 billion and the potential tariff revenue loss to developing countries to be $10 billion per annum

India reassures the United States that equalisation levy is entirely consistent with India's commitments under WTO and international taxation agreements

In addition to India, the United States is also initiating investigations against similar digital services taxes (DST) imposed by countries such as Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, the European Union, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom (UK)

Google is particularly concerned that it will not be able to swiftly identify countries where advertising arrangements were in place to target Indian users, increasing technological and compliance requirements, according to one of the sources

Coronavirus updates: U.S. importers were billed for $48.1 billion in duties on Chinese goods from the Trump administration's \"Section 301\" tariffs over the past 20 months, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Civil society groups want the contents of the MoU to be made public before its finalisation to ensure that India resists US demands to influence the implementation of India's IP legislations

Trump along with the First Lady are scheduled to visit Ahmedabad and New Delhi on February 24 and 25

India, the world's largest milk-producing nation, has traditionally restricted dairy imports to protect the livelihoods of 80 million rural households involved in the industry

Trump has been hinting at the possibility of a bilateral trade deal with India for some time now; in return, India wants the US to reconsider the recent withdrawal of some duty benefits it has been offering to products exported from India

WEF 2020: US President Donald Trump had said last year that India and China were taking advantage of the developing nation tag

A World Trade Organisation dispute panel ruled on October 31 that India's key export promotion schemes violated WTO rules and hence should be withdrawn within six months

WTO appeals judges said in July that the United States did not fully comply with a WTO ruling and could face Chinese sanctions if it does not remove certain tariffs that break the watchdog's rules

The two countries are negotiating a trade package to iron out bilateral trade issues and promote the two-way commerce