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Message
My Dear Fellow Members,
The business world at present is indeed throbbing with
excitement and expectation. The dull years are behind us and
most economic indicators are positive for all the politically
stable countries in the world.
In other words, it is time to do more business.
For India, the opportunities for global business were never
better. And the opportunity of doing far more business with the
United States in the years ahead is indeed awesome.
The scope for export of goods and services to the US will be
bursting at the seams with further liberalization of textile
quota, pharmaceutical patents, outsourcing, global
infrastructure contracting, original equipment supply, and so
on - not to speak of the growing traditional exports of gems and
jewelry, carpets, hosiery, handicrafts, auto components,
agricultural and hardware products. I am proud to feel that
members of the Indo - American Chamber of Commerce are
part of this vibrant activity.
I am not going into details and statistics, names and addresses
at this point. These will come to you through our Internet
Information Service to all Members regularly. So please inform
your present operative e-mail IDs to our Delhi HO without
delay.
You will also find the suggested list of events of most of our
branches in this magazine and I entreat your inputs and
participation to make IACC vaster and visible to all. This is only
befitting a chamber doing business with India's largest trading
partner by far - the United States of America.
With the momentous re-election of President Bush and the
installation of Manmohan Singh as India's Prime Minister
solidifying the continuity of bilateral and progressive business
relations between the two largest democracies in the world, the
floodgates of US investments in India (whether through FDI or
FII) have also opened.
Lastly, I would like to thank you for electing me as your
President and giving me the honor of interacting with you more
closely and hopefully, taking the chamber a step forward.
On behalf of the chamber, I congratulate President Bush on
receiving the 'Person of the Year' award from Time Magazine.
Along with Executive Vice Presidents, Mr. Govind
Mirchandani and Mr. Deepak Pahwa, I also wish you and your
families a very Happy New Year.
Ranjit Sen
National President, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
INDO-US BUSINESS December 2004
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