The TPF has five focus groups, on agriculture, investment, innovation and creativity (intellectual property rights), services, and tariff and non-tariff barriers. The meeting will be co-chaired by commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal and US trade representative Katherine Tai. Goyal will be on an official visit to New York and Washington DC from January 9-11, the ministry said.
The 12th TPF meeting was held in Delhi on November 23, 2021, after a gap of four years.
“Working groups were reactivated after the last ministerial,” said the ministry. “TPF is a platform for continuous engagement between two countries in the area of trade and to further the trade and investment relations between the two countries. Both countries are looking forward to the meeting and confident of making progress on the trade issues.”
The meeting was deferred earlier in November.
