Business coalition tells Lighthizer to tackle market access, IP issues with India

The Alliance for Fair Trade with India wants the Trump administration to knock down market access barriers India has erected, focusing on price controls, localization requirements, standards issues and intellectual property in a letter sent to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer ahead of the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum and Commercial Dialogue. AFTI states that “due to a lack of leverage vis-à-vis India, concrete and lasting policy changes to address a series of longstanding issues remain elusive, and U.S. companies in...