President Barack Obama embarks take Washington's relationship with what he himself describes as "an integral partner of the 21st century" to a level that baru.Pada history-travel Friday to India.From Obama to the bottom, officials held out the prospect of significant announcements during its November 6 to 9 without spelling out specifics, but the president himself has made clear will focus on sales of U.S. goods and create jobs in the U.S..
That has been a consistent message of Obama, more so because the voters are not happy over the slow recovery of his giving the Democrats what has been called "defeat" in the mid-term elections.
In India trip, "was the main goal to take a group of U.S. companies and open up markets so that we can sell in Asia, in some of the fastest growing markets in the world, and we can create jobs here in the United States of America," he said Thursday after meeting Cabinet to take stock after the disaster."And my hope, is that we have some specific announcements that indicate the relationship between what we are doing abroad and what happens here at home when it comes to job growth and economic growth," Obama said.
Officials are also on the pain to anger about U.S. support for India's hopes to become a permanent member of UN Security Council or the reduction of U.S. export controls of high technology goods to India with Obama calling it very "complex issue".
National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said Thursday that even though left open, the two sides to "work through" and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and others "have been very involved with our Indian colleagues, and so we'll see where this ends up."
Over 200 business leaders, including from Fortune 200 to small and medium enterprises, which make the trip to India to visit Obama.
During the visit India, Obama will meet with top U.S. business leaders, including India-born chairman of Pepsico Indra Nooyi, to "discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India," according to the White House.
Delegates business meeting Obama will include Honeywell International Inc. David Cote, who co-chairs the India-US CEOs Forum with the chairman of Tata Sons, Ratan Tata, Boeing Co. Jim McNerney, General Electric Co. 's Jeffrey Immelt and McGraw Hill Companies' Terry McGraw, who also USIBC chairman.
Louis ChĂȘnevert, CEO of United Technologies Corporation, the major aerospace and Ellen Kullman, chief executive of chemical giant DuPont also can join.
Trade between the U.S. and India more than doubled to $ 37 billion in 2009 compared with 2003, according to U.S. Commerce Department data. In the first eight months of 2010, total trade reached $ 32 billion, Commerce figures show.
By the way Obama, the main U.S. trade association representing the U.S. top 300 companies doing business with India, has supported India's aspirations to chair the Security remains also the elimination of barriers to trade high-tech
In a five-point agenda to promote India-US economic cooperation, the US-India Business Council (USIBC) is also trying to free trade agreements, educational cooperation, intervention to 'grow' agriculture; and collaboration infrastructure.
Washington also looked at several multi-billion dollar transactions defense, including $ 10 billion project for the 126 fighter bombers that the Indian Air Force plans to buy and that two American companies, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, is among six competitors.
To visit India after Dwight D. Eisenhower (December 1959), Richard Nixon (July 1969), Obama is the sixth president to visit India after Jimmy Carter (January 1978), Bill Clinton (March 2000) and George Bush (March 2006)







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