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Indo-US Trade Negotiations on Right Track
Commerce and Industry & Railways Minister& Piyush Goyal addressed the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) in New Delhi on 21 October 2019 and said that Indo-US relationship is at their best ever now. India is looking to the US for technology, innovation, skills and quality education. India on the other hand offers an attractive market to US businesses and skilled labour that can add value to American companies. Commerce and Industry Ministry is working to create a single window for investments into India.
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Commerce and Industry & Railways Minister on a Two-Day Visit to Sweden
Commerce and Industry & Railways Minister, Piyush Goyal will attend the 19th Session of the Indo-Swedish Joint Commission for Economic, Industrial and Scientific Cooperation in Stockholm, Sweden on 23rd October 2019. Sweden is the 20th largest foreign investor in India with cumulative investment of USD 8.51 billion between January 2003 and January 2017. The existing Swedish MNCs are now expanding not only in manufacturing but also increasingly on offshore IT operations and R&D in India.
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Farmers be made Stakeholders in the Coffee Value Chain
Commerce & Industry and Railways, Piyush Goyal while addressing the curtain raiser event in New Delhi on 15 October 2019 for the 5th World Coffee Conference (WCC) & Expo to be held in Bengaluru from September 7-12, 2020 urged the Coffee Board of India and the International Coffee Organization (ICO) to bring in innovation to the conference and expo by crowdsourcing ideas from citizens. He also said methods may be explored to make coffee farmers stakeholders in the value chain as this will have a positive impact on the 25 million families who depend on coffee cultivation the world over.
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Government of India committed to safeguard IP content
Government of India is committed to safeguard against infringement of originality and creativity of the makers to give a boost to services exports. Services Exports Promotion Council (SEPC), set-up by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, has brought out the India Intellectual Property (IP) Guide at Cannes in MIPCOM 2019, which held between 14-17, October 2019, for the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry. The guide features a catalogue of over 60 Indian IPs, popular in over 160 countries. It comprehensively breaks the narrative of only low-end work being done in India.
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