Finance Committee Leaders Ask Biden to Press India's Modi on Trade
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and the committee's top Republican, Mike Crapo of Idaho, asked President Joe Biden to press India on an array of trade irritants for U.S. exporters, including sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions that discriminate against growers, restrictions on biotechnology, and high tariffs on agriculture imports, including "apples, blueberries, cherries, dairy, nuts, pears, chickpeas, lentils, potatoes, and alcoholic beverages."
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They complained in a letter sent June 21 that the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework talks "have not resulted in the removal of major distortive trade and investment barriers or even deterred India from imposing new barriers."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the White House this week.