Sustainability, tech driving Indo-US ties: Piyush Goyal

Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal has said that Indo-US economic relations are driven by the common interest of promoting sustainability, emerging technologies, globally resilient supply chains, and small businesses.

At the India-US CEO Forum held virtually on Thursday, he also reiterated the importance of such dialogues in leveraging this momentum.

The forum was chaired jointly by Goyal and US secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo. This is the sixth time the forum has been convened since its reconstitution in December 2014. It comprises CEOs from leading Indian and US based companies and is co-chaired by N Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, and James Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin.

"The CEOs, under the seven working groups, presented priority areas to create stronger partnerships and boost growth across critical areas such as entrepreneurship and promoting small businesses, healthcare and pharma, aerospace and defence, ICT and digital infrastructure, energy, infrastructure and manufacturing, financial services, trade and investments, among others," the commerce and industry ministry said in a statement.