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India and the U.S. will concentrate on measures to enhance the nature of merchandise and administrations, create shrewd urban areas and advance business and development amid the inevitable two-sided Strategic and Commercial Dialog S&CD. Talks are additionally likely on 'simplicity of working together's drives with regards to the Parliament as of late passing the Constitution Amendment Bill for Goods and Services Tax, as indicated by authority sources.

The S&CD is the principle two-sided gathering to talk about approaches to fortify participation in zones including exchange and protection. The S&CD will be held in New Delhi amid August 29-31. It will be co-led by the Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the U.S. Business Secretary Penny Pritzker and Secretary of State John Kerry. This will be the second S&CD and the principal such meeting in India. The primary S&CD was held in Washington DC in September 2015.

The sources said discourses on models — or standards to enhance the nature of merchandise and administrations — will concentrate on participation between India's National Physical Laboratory NPL and America's National Institute of Standards and Technologies NIST to create reference materials. They said talks will be held with delegates from NIST as it is a pioneer in creating 'reference materials' — or forerunners to benchmarks for guaranteeing the nature of items and their traceability.

Department of Indian Standards authorities will likewise join the discourses, they said. NPL and BIS are national bodies on principles in India. India and the U.S. will likewise consider an association amongst BIS and NIST for investigation of warnings made at the World Trade Organization on nourishment security, and creature and plant wellbeing measures and also on specialized directions, models, and similarity evaluation methods.