Bangalore: The U.S. trade representative Michael Froman is likely to announce a trade enforcement action related to India at a news conference, his office said without divulging any further details, reports Reuters.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce had urged the U.S government to take action against India over intellectual property rights violations to prevent Indian companies from manufacturing cheap generic versions of drugs under patent protection. It has also urged the USTR to tag India as a Priority Foreign Country, a label reserved for the worst violator of intellectual property rights. The move is supposed to be in response to this grievance.
To double the trouble for India, the U.S. International Trade Commission has scheduled a hearing on Indian trade practices shortly.
India is already on the priority watch list of the U.S. government for monitoring of intellectual property rights practices.
Experts are apprehensive that these measures will cause further damages to the U.S.-India relationship which is going through a bad phase following the Devyani Khobragade issue.
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