US / India’s unfair trade practices are putting jobs at risk says the National Association of Manufacturers

More than a dozen U.S. business groups are banding together to resolve what they argue is a sharp rise in discriminatory trade practices by India.

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) on Tuesday helped launch a new alliance that is urging the Obama administration to work toward solutions to widespread problems they say are benefiting India’s businesses at the expense of U.S. jobs.

“India’s unfair trade practices against U.S. manufactured exports is putting jobs at risk and harming American manufacturing workers,” said Linda Dempsey, NAM’s vice president for international economic affairs.

The group is specifically asking Secretary of State John Kerry, who is heading to India this month, to immediately engage at the highest levels of the Indian government to stop practices that they say are undermining the long-standing trade relationship.

Dempsey said India’s actions constitute a “disturbing trend” that affects nearly every major sector of the U.S. economy and puts at risk an expanding bilateral trade relationship that has grown tenfold in the past 20 years, and was worth more than $60 billion in 2012.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor

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