加载中…国际经济法动态：美印签订贸易与投资协定
(2010-03-20 14:09:43)
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U.S. Signs Trade and Investment Pact with
India
The U.S. and India signed March 17 a Framework for Cooperation on Trade and Investment that seeks to build on recent rapid growth in bilateral trade, which has more than doubled over the past five years. In what the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative called “the first significant step taken” under this framework, the two sides also announced the launch of an initiative called “Integrating U.S. and Indian Small Businesses into the Global Supply Chain.” This effort will support the National Export Initiative announced by President Obama earlier this year by expanding trade and job-creating opportunities for U.S. and Indian companies of all sizes.
A USTR press release states that under this framework the U.S. and India will continue to use focus groups to engage on trade policy matters that support the objectives of the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum, including the following.
• adopting and applying transparent, World Trade Organization-consistent policies governing trade in agricultural products, including science-based sanitary and phytosanitary policies
• improving intellectual property rights protection and enforcement, enhancing IPR awareness, fostering innovation and creativity, and increasing collaboration between U.S. and Indian innovators
• providing an open and predictable climate for bilateral investment and increasing opportunities for private investment across economic sectors, including in projects to support the Indian government’s infrastructure goals
• promoting areas of cooperation that enable services trade, including bilateral cooperation, trade and investment in the information and communications technology, education, environmental and energy services and healthcare sectors
• promoting policies to expand market access, including adopting transparent, WTO-consistent policies governing tariffs, standards, customs valuation, licensing and other non-tariff regulations
• increasing opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in India and the U.S. to expand ties, enhance participation in global value chains, and export to and invest in each other’s economies
• promoting inclusive economic growth, the empowerment of women and disadvantaged groups and the observance of labor rights
• encouraging bilateral trade and investment, and creating opportunities for private sector cooperation, in the development and deployment of clean energy and environmental technologies and services, including through the exchange of information and technology
• improving understanding on respective approaches to government procurement
The U.S. and India signed March 17 a Framework for Cooperation on Trade and Investment that seeks to build on recent rapid growth in bilateral trade, which has more than doubled over the past five years. In what the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative called “the first significant step taken” under this framework, the two sides also announced the launch of an initiative called “Integrating U.S. and Indian Small Businesses into the Global Supply Chain.” This effort will support the National Export Initiative announced by President Obama earlier this year by expanding trade and job-creating opportunities for U.S. and Indian companies of all sizes.
A USTR press release states that under this framework the U.S. and India will continue to use focus groups to engage on trade policy matters that support the objectives of the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum, including the following.
• adopting and applying transparent, World Trade Organization-consistent policies governing trade in agricultural products, including science-based sanitary and phytosanitary policies
• improving intellectual property rights protection and enforcement, enhancing IPR awareness, fostering innovation and creativity, and increasing collaboration between U.S. and Indian innovators
• providing an open and predictable climate for bilateral investment and increasing opportunities for private investment across economic sectors, including in projects to support the Indian government’s infrastructure goals
• promoting areas of cooperation that enable services trade, including bilateral cooperation, trade and investment in the information and communications technology, education, environmental and energy services and healthcare sectors
• promoting policies to expand market access, including adopting transparent, WTO-consistent policies governing tariffs, standards, customs valuation, licensing and other non-tariff regulations
• increasing opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in India and the U.S. to expand ties, enhance participation in global value chains, and export to and invest in each other’s economies
• promoting inclusive economic growth, the empowerment of women and disadvantaged groups and the observance of labor rights
• encouraging bilateral trade and investment, and creating opportunities for private sector cooperation, in the development and deployment of clean energy and environmental technologies and services, including through the exchange of information and technology
• improving understanding on respective approaches to government procurement
Source：Sandler, Travis
& Rosenberg
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