An Indo-US Space Jam – The Economic Times

A lot of the onshoring to India is within the type of shopper expertise merchandise reminiscent of cell handsets and photo voltaic power tools. What’s lacking is a give attention to cutting-edge hi-tech objects like semiconductors, high-performance computing and business area expertise….

Right here, a US-India hi-tech partnership assumes significance, however US export controls, particularly these below a regime known as the Worldwide Visitors in Arms Rules (the ITAR), could should be fastidiously thought-about. The excellent news is that US-India Initiative on Essential and Rising Applied sciences (iCET) was not too long ago elevated to a strategic partnership….

For India and the US, what is required is a preliminary roadmap to gauge the diploma to which high-end applied sciences coated below the iCET are bothered by the ITAR restrictions. Maybe the business area sector – usually the topic of the ITAR restrictions – could be a great place to do that train.

Area applied sciences normally originate within the army area, although additionally they have civilian functions. For example, launch automobiles will also be employed as ballistic missiles. Equally, whereas satellites play a essential function in catastrophe administration and different areas like precision farming, they may additionally present help to a rustic’s armed forces for the aim of reconnaissance and surveillance. So, commerce in area expertise objects is normally topic to the ITAR controls….

From ‘Forging a Excessive-Expertise Partnership Between america and India within the Age of Export Controls’, Carnegie India