Overview
The visit of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Washington from 22-26 November, 2009 as the first State Guest of President Barack Obama reaffirmed the global strategic partnership between India and the United States. President Obama’s visit to India from 6-9 November 2010, imparted further momentum to bilateral cooperation and helped establish a long-term framework for India-US global strategic partnership. President Obama characterized India-US relationship as one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century.
India-US relations have become increasingly broad based
covering cooperation in areas such as trade and economic, defence and security, education, science and technology, high-technology, civil nuclear energy, space technology and applications, clean energy, environment and health. People to people interaction provide further vitality and strength to bilateral relationship. There have been regular contacts at political and official levels and a wide-ranging dialogue architecture on bilateral, regional and global issues has been put in place.
Our Vision:
The USIIC aims to be the leading organisation assisting government bodies, industry associations,
corporates, agents, Indian importers, and American exporters in the United States and India, in the
mutually beneficial exchange of products, services and techonologies, and in forging meaningful trade
partnerships through dissemination of practical and relevant information and through the creation of
networking platforms.
Mission Statement:
The US-India Importers’ Council acts as an Intermediary Organization to facilitate partnership and trade
between Indian and American businesses, thus acting as a catalyst in promoting economic growth
between the United States & India.
India – US Trade
The bilateral trade between India and US in merchandise goods has increased from modest $ 5.6 billion in 1990, to $ 48.75 billion in 2010 representing an impressive 771% growth in a span of 20 years. US exports of merchandise to India grew by 12.7% from $ 14.18 billion during Jan. - September 2010 to $ 15.99 billion in Jan. – September 2011.
India’s merchandise exports to the U.S. also grew by 24.3% from $ 22.14 billion during the period Jan. – September 2010, to $ 27.52 billion in Jan. – September 2011.
India – US Bilateral Merchandise Trade stands at $ 43.51 billion during this period.
