NEW DELHI: Trade ministers of India and the US today discussed various issues with an aim to ramp up trade and investment between the two countries.
US Trade Representative Michael Froman is leading a high-level delegation here for the 10th India-US Trade Policy Forum (TPF) meeting.
Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharamanand Froman discussed ways to improve trade and investments relations further, an official said.
Both the ministers will also hold delegation-level talks today as part of TPF.
Issues such as market access for agriculture items, promotion of investment in manufacturing and intellectual property rights (IPRs) are likely to figure in the meeting.
TPF is the premier bilateral forum for discussion and resolution of trade and investment issues between the two countries.
It has five focus groups: agriculture, investment, innovation and creativity (intellectual property rights), services, and tariff and non-tariff barriers.
The bilateral trade between the countries stood at USD 109 billion in 2015-16.
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