America miffed at India’s local content need for telecom
5 April 2013 6:32 AM IST
The US has highlighted the growing use of local content requirements in several countries, including India, among key barriers faced by US telecommunications service and equipment suppliers in their dealings abroad.
Acting US Trade Representative (USTR) Demetrios Marantis Wednesday also identified several other specific issues in its annual report on the operation and effectiveness of telecommunications trade agreements on which USTR will focus its monitoring and enforcement efforts this year.
‘Recent years have witnessed a growing trend among our trading partners to impose localisation barriers to trade designed to protect, favour, or stimulate domestic industries, service providers, or intellectual property (IP)’ Marantis said.
The review ‘highlights the concern that US equipment manufacturers may be disadvantaged by the growing use of local content requirements in countries such as Brazil, India, and Indonesia’, he said.
‘It also outlines a range of other telecom barriers that USTR has spotted and intends to tackle with increased monitoring and enforcement in the coming year,’ he said.
Acting US Trade Representative (USTR) Demetrios Marantis Wednesday also identified several other specific issues in its annual report on the operation and effectiveness of telecommunications trade agreements on which USTR will focus its monitoring and enforcement efforts this year.
‘Recent years have witnessed a growing trend among our trading partners to impose localisation barriers to trade designed to protect, favour, or stimulate domestic industries, service providers, or intellectual property (IP)’ Marantis said.
The review ‘highlights the concern that US equipment manufacturers may be disadvantaged by the growing use of local content requirements in countries such as Brazil, India, and Indonesia’, he said.
‘It also outlines a range of other telecom barriers that USTR has spotted and intends to tackle with increased monitoring and enforcement in the coming year,’ he said.
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