Capitol Hill Trade Leaders Push the ITC to Further Investigate Indian Trade Policy
Trade leaders on Capitol Hill asked the International Trade Commission on Sept. 24 to conduct a follow-up investigation into Indian trade policy. The ITC began an investigation in August 2013 that focuses on Indian trade policies from 2003 through mid-2014…
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(here). Finance and Ways and Means committee leadership are now pushing the ITC to look into Indian industrial policies that discriminate against U.S. companies, and are also asking that the ITC report on Indian trade policy developments after mid-2014. “We expect that this new investigation will allow the Commission to meet with relevant Indian government officials in the new Bharatiya Janata Party-led government and seek additional information from U.S. firms on any developments in India relevant to the scope of matters identified in our original August 2013 request,” said the Sept. 24 letter. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet with Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 29 (see 14092522). The letter asks for the ITC to release the new report by September 2015.