India is a growing market for imported consumer-oriented food products. India’s imports of consumer-oriented products from all origins in calendar year 2017 were nearly $5 billion. Imported tree nuts, spices, processed and fresh fruits, and chocolate/cocoa products accounted for over 85 percent of all imported consumer-oriented items, and the U.S....
Lockheed Martin Partners India Innovation Growth Program
The India Innovation Growth Program (IIGP) has been one of India’s longest standing public-private partnerships between Government of India’s Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Lockheed Martin Corporation. The goal of the Program is to build an innovation pipeline in India, and it has facilitated access to capital, industry...
Israel's Netanyahu Hails "New Era" in Ties with India
Benjamin Netanyahu, the first Israeli prime minister to visit India in 15 years, accompanied by his wife Sara on a six-day visit to India, were given a warm welcome by Prime Minister Modi. Driving the growing ties is both leaders' shared worldview for national-security and free-markets. Both see Israel's technology-oriented...
American Exports to India Support 260,000 U.S. Jobs
According to the publication India Matters for America/America Matters for India created by The East West Center in Washington and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),"Every U.S. state exports to India; these exports support more than 260,000 jobs directly and indirectly." The launch of the publication...
U.S. Officials Call for Bi-Lateral Investment Treaty with India
At an event hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, an association of business organizations in New Delhi, India Adewale "Wally" Adeyemo, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Assistant to President Obama, said, "One of the things that would help attract Smart Capital is a bilateral investment treaty." He...
French Companies to Invest $5 Billion in the Indian Insurance Industry
At an event organized by the French embassy and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, France’s ambassador to India Francois Richier said that France would invest $5 billion in India’s insurance business. “When you compare the share of French FDI (foreign direct investment), India receives 6% whereas...