It is likely that India asks the United States to relieve export controls and give you access to critical technologies along with key American allies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan under the Bilateral Commercial Agreement (BTA), sources said.
They added that India can search these events as telecommunications, biotechnology, AI (artificial intelligence), pharmaceutical products, quantum computing and semiconductors.
The country also seeks service concessions for intensive labor sectors, such as textiles, gems and jewels, leather items, clothing, plastics, chemicals, shrimp, oil seeds, chemicals, grapes and bananas in the pact proposed with the United States.
On the other hand, the US service concessions in sectors such as certain industrial products, cars (electric vehicles particularly), wines, petrochemical products, dairy products, agricultural items such as apples and tree nuts.
As part of the proposed BTA, one of the sources said that India can ask the United States to place it along with other key allies, including Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan with respect to access to technology through the flexibility of export controls, partly part, Biestia, sarters.
Easy access to avant -garde technologies in these sectors would help boost Indian innovation capabilities, improve its technological infrastructure and further boost the country’s economic growth.
The Ministry of Commerce, which leads the negotiations for the agreement, declined to comment when asked about thesis issues.
According to the GTRI group of experts, the United States has facilitated export controls to strengthen technological associations with nearby allies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and Japan. The changes are designed to facilitate collaboration in the critical sectors.
He said that, as part of the Aukus Security Pact, the United States has simplified rules to share defense and double use technologies with Australia and the United Kingdom. As of September 1, 2024, about 80 percent of exports related to defense to these countries that do not require individual licenses under the revised weapons regulations of the United States.
In September 2024, Washington also introduced new global controls on exports related to quantum computing and semiconductor manufacturing.
However, trusted partners such as Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and other G7 nations are largely exempt from these new requirements, helping to maintain open research and trade channels, said the founder of GTRI, Ajay Srivastava.
At the request of India, he said, while Washington is anxious to strengthen technological ties with India, especially under the quad frame, can stop short or offer complete parity.
“American officials could point out Conns ongoing on India’s export controls, intellectual property protections, cybersecurity standards and military relations with Russia. Instead of general exemptions, Washington can suggest exceptions to expanded licenses of the mechanisms for selected Indian entities,” Sriveastava added.
India and the United States have ended the terms of references (Tor) for the proposition agreement, which include around 19 chapters that cover issues such as tariffs, goods, services, rules of origin, non -tariff barriers and customs facilitation.
To give more impulse to the conversations in the pause window of the 90 -day rate, an official Indian team was there in Washington to iron the differences on certain topics before formally launching the negotiations for the PACT.
The United States remained the largest commercial partner in India for the fourth consecutive year in 2024-25 with bilateral trade valued at $ 131.84 billion. The United States represents approximately 18 percent of the total exports of Indian goods, 6.22 percent in imports and 10.73 percent in total merchandise trade in the country.
With the United States, India had a commercial surplus (the difference between imports and exports) or $ 41.18 billion in goods in 2024-25. It was $ 35.32 billion in 2023-24, $ 27.7 billion in 2022-23, $ 32.85 billion in 2021-22 and $ 22.73 billion in 2020-21. The United States has raised Conerns about this commercial driving deficit.
Posted on April 27, 2025
