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Secretary of State John Kerry has his hands more than full in dealing with multiple crises in Ukraine and Gaza at this time. But he and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker traveled to India last week ostensibly for the fifth edition of the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue. Not much has changed in the strategic positions of both countries since the last such dialogue. The two real reasons for the trip are to prepare for Narendra Modi's first visit to Washington as India's Prime Minister and to accelerate U.S.-India trade. So it was no surprise that Secretary Kerry welcomed India's recently raised foreign-investment ceilings in several sectors of the Indian economy, including defense, railways, e-commerce and insurance.
When President Obama launched his National Export Initiative with the aim of doubling U.S. 1 trillion, I made a prediction that U.S.-India trade would need to more than double for this to work. 96 billion in a decade. 500 billion in annual trade with India over the next five years. With the new business-friendly government in New Delhi, it seems that the Indian economy might just be able to grow quickly enough to support such a radical expansion of goods and services exchange between the world's two largest democracies. Boeing exports C-17 military transport aircraft and Dreamliner jets to India.
General Electric sells large turbines to help generate electricity in Andhra Pradesh. The Walt Disney Company produces local and global movies for Indian audiences. My own client, Paramount Farms, grows the healthy pistachio nuts in the San Joaquin valley to satisfy the palates of middle-class Indians and provide a safe alternative to Iranian-grown products. In 2013 over 850,000 Indians visited the United States, and over 1 million Americans visited India, the largest group of foreign arrivals. 1 billion to turn its new auto plant in Gujarat into a regional manufacturing and export hub, and both IBM and Hewlett Packard employ more than 100,00 Indians each.
American brands loom large in service businesses such as hospitality and fast food, with names such as KFC, Subway, Sheraton and Hyatt hotels being prized in India. Talking about Hyatt brings us back to Commerce Secretary Penny Prizker. The 55-year-old billionaire and campaign supporter of President Obama comes from the family that founded the famous hotel chain and has 20 properties in India. This Harvard and Stanford graduate also built thriving businesses in real estate and financial services before moving on to public service last year. Pritzker, not Kerry, may be the most important American visitor to the Modi government so far.
Assistant Secretary Arun Kumar, a former member of the board of the U.S. India Business Council and a holder of an M.B.A. MIT Sloan School. Kumar now runs the U.S. Commercial Service, and his agency has seven posts in India -- New Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai -- which gives it the largest footprint by office count in any overseas location. Ambassador Vinai Thummalapally who leads SelectUSA, the first-ever U.S. Back in 1979 "Barry" Obama was a student at Occidental College, not far from where I now live. That is when he found his liking for Indian food such as dal, and perhaps his alleged lucky charm of Hanuman, the Hindu demigod. But more importantly, he acquired an Indian-American friend and roommate who would be appointed U.S. Ambassador to Belize when Obama became president of the United States.
The same Obama friend is now back in India asking Indians to invest in America. In Delhi, Pritzker said major areas where American companies can help are infrastructure, manufacturing and business investment. By infrastructure, she meant roads, power, ports, rail, airports, water and sewage, not just electric power generation. 1 trillion on improving its infrastructure and seeks not only products and technology but American debt capital. During discussions, India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, highlighted the importance of a high level of import dependence in crude oil by India and invited participation from U.S. India's exploration efforts and requested America to consider commencement of exports of American crude oil to India. The American side also offered to assist in development technology for storage of crude oil in salt caverns.
India's Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman apprised Secretary Pritzker of India's administrative simplifications, government facilitation measures and manufacturing initiatives such as Special Economic Zones. Sitharaman also provided an overview of India's plan for 100 new [http://prestigesmartcity.grihhpravesh.com/ Prestige Smart City Price] cities to support its urbanization. Secretary Kerry will get back to the current crises in Europe and the Middle East, and I don't expect much progress on the political front in the immediate future. But the commercial discussions between Pritzker's team and India's minister and bureaucrats could yield rapid and tangible progress by the time Narendra Modi sets foot in Washington next month. It will also help if a credible high-profile U.S.
India can be appointed very soon. The short tenures of Ambassadors Tim Roemer and Nancy Powell have created the sense that the Obama administration is perhaps not as serious about India as it claims to be. President Kennedy sent John Galbraith, and Nixon sent Daniel Patrick Moynihan. These towering figures were loved by Indians; in fact Galbraith was even awarded the Padma Vibhsuhana, India's second-highest civilian commendation. I am hopeful that India will rise from being the U.S.'s 11th-largest trading partner to among the top seven in the next decade. This requires both governments to work diligently to reduce real and hidden trade barriers and let companies and entrepreneurs from each country interact and benefit from their counterparts.
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