India

India last week took aim at the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada at the World Trade Organization's Trade in Services Council over visa measures it deems to be barriers to its service suppliers who seek to do business in those countries, but faced push back from the three countries which made clear they did not see the council as the appropriate forum to raise those issues.

Westinghouse Electric Company's bid to supply India with six nuclear reactors could fall through due to the company's inability to meet New Delhi's pricing requirements for the construction of the reactors relative to the amount of electricity they put out, according to a former senior manager of national civil nuclear power programs.

The head of India's information technology services industry trade association said in an interview Tuesday (June 7) that there will be no significant progress on bilateral commercial and trade irritants, such as the hike in visa fees for certain Indian workers, before the Obama administration leaves office early next year, while arguing that the United States has, in certain areas, made trade with India more difficult.