Minister Goyal highlighted challenges being faced by business visitors from India due to visa processing time periods and requested the United States to augment processing, the joint statement said. Commerce Minister Goyal reiterated India s interest in restoration of its beneficiary status under the Generalized System of Preferences program. New Delhi, Jan 13  IANS  India has requested the US to restore its status under the Generalized System of Preferences  GSP  program which was scrapped by the former Donald Trump administration in 2019.The issue came up at the India-US Trade Policy Forum  TPF  meeting here co-chaired by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and US Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai.
India has requested the US to restore its status under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, which was scrapped by the Trump administration in 2019. India also raised concerns about visa processing time periods for business visitors.