Eric Garcetti Urges Lower Tariffs, Fair Trade Practices With India

US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti emphasized the immense potential of the US-India partnership, stressing the importance of reducing tariffs and fostering fairer and more equitable trade. Speaking at an event organized by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) on Thursday, Garcetti stated, “We need, together, to lower tariffs, not to see them go up. We need, together, to increase trade and to make it more fair and equal. We need to, together, make sure that there’s training and talent that meets the needs of companies on both sides of the Indo-Pacific.”

He added, “We have to protect our trademarks and our intellectual property, and we have to make sure that transportation and infrastructure exists, for India to reach its goals more quickly, that is in the American interest, and vice versa, in the Indian interest as well. So let us renew our commitment to being more ambitious, to not settling for what is, and what is good, but reaching for what can be and what will be great.”

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The Ambassador also praised India’s workforce, calling it “the most extraordinary resources that humanity has on its planet.” Garcetti remarked, “And to realise these ambitions, we must recommit ourselves to a mutual path of trust and transparencies so that people know what to expect. India’s workforce, which numbers more than a billion people, is one of the most extraordinary resources that humanity has on its planet. They are builders, thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs. The Indian dream is the flip side of what we used to call the American truth. In some ways you see it even more optimistically sometimes than our own country. And we can leave inspired when we work together about what’s possible.”

Garcetti also advocated for merging “American scientific and financial acumen” with “India’s grassroots ingenuity.” He said, “The US and India can create ecosystems that tap into this human capital to merge American scientific strengths in research, our financial acumen and business strategy with Indians’ jugaad finding a solution to everything, your deep talent pools, your grassroots ingenuity and your readiness to scale solutions on a massive level.”

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