Piyush Goyal To Visit US From 9-11 Jan To Participate In Trade Policy Forum

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal will be on an official visit to New York and Washington DC from 09 to 11 January to participate in India- US Trade Policy Forum (TPF). 

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry in a statement said that in the first leg of the visit, the minister will interact with CEOs of reputed multinational enterprises, participate in community events, join roundtable meetings with business leaders and think tanks and visit industries in New York.

He will attend the 13th TPF meeting in Washington DC on 11 January. Before delegation-level talks he will also hold a one-to-one meeting with USTR Ambassador Katherine Tai. 

The 12th TPF ministerial meeting was held on 23 November 2021 after a gap of four years in New Delhi. Working groups were reactivated after the last ministerial. 

Notably, TPF is a platform for continuous engagement between two countries in the area of trade and to further the trade and investment relations between the two countries. 

"In Washington DC, he will also have a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. There will also be interaction with some captains of Industry," the statement added. 

Meanwhile, both India and USA are natural partners and have trade complementarities, long-standing strategic and economic relationships, people to people contact and both are vibrant democracies too. 

The two countries are also collaborating under the QUAD, India-Israel/ UAE-USA (I2U2) and Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).