May 14: Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister for Commerce & Industry, Railways, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public distribution had a virtual meeting with Ambassador Katherine Tai, US Trade Representative on 14th May 2021. The meeting focused on increasing vaccine availability in an inclusive and equitable manner to combat the Global pandemic caused by Covid-19. The proposal of India on waiver of certain TRIPS provisions to increase global vaccine production in order to take on the challenge of vaccinating the poorest of the poor and save lives was also discussed. The Minister thanked the USTR for the US announcing its support for India’s proposal. The Minister mentioned the supply chains for the vaccine manufacturers must be kept open and unbridled as the entire world is in dire need of vaccines. Both sides agreed to work towards the common resolve of increasing vaccine availability and saving lives.
Disclaimer: We donot claim that the images used as part of the news published are always owned by us. From time to time, we use images sourced as part of news or any related images or representations. Kindly take a look at our image usage policy on how we select the image that are used as part of the news.Related Articles
Piyush Goyal takes a comprehensive review of the progress of the NICDC
April 12, 2022
India Ties
Business, Foreign Relations
Comments Off on Piyush Goyal takes a comprehensive review of the progress of the NICDC
Instructs officials to bring complete transparency into the land allotment system through e-land management system e-LMS and integrated dashboard […]
India – US TPF gets a big boost
India – United States to take economic relationship to the next high level
India – US TPF agrees to integrate the economies across sectors […]
Piyush Goyal visits Australia after inking India-Australia ECTA
April 5, 2022
India Ties
Foreign Relations
Comments Off on Piyush Goyal visits Australia after inking India-Australia ECTA
During the visit, I will take the ECTA to people – Shri Goyal; To take ECTA forward, Shri Goyal to hold talks with his Australian counterpart, Mr. Dan Tehan MP, and Mr. Tony Abbott, Australian PM’s Special Trade Envoy […]