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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (1275)	3/19/2000 8:08:00 PM
From: Yamakita	Respond to of 1471

In the extremely unlikely chance that Mohan missed it: ~~~ Clinton to Launch Tech Trade Plan on India Visit NEW DELHI (Reuters) - President Clinton will launch a U.S.-Indian initiative aimed at fostering liberal trade rules in technology and e-commerce during a South Asia visit next week, business leaders said on Saturday. The so-called Knowledge Trade Initiative will set out the basis for liberal trade rules in knowledge, Michael Clark, executive director of the U.S.-India Business Council, told a news conference in the Indian capital. ``What we are proposing is that the U.S. and India work together...in pioneering the concepts, the new legal framework, to look at the implications, to make recommendations,' Clark said. Clinton starts a week-long visit to South Asia on Sunday night. He will spend a day in Bangladesh, five days in India and make a brief stopover in Pakistan on his way back to the United States. Clark said a protocol on the initiative would be finalized soon, and would be announced at Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh or at Bombay, the financial center. Clinton is scheduled to visit the two cities on March 24. Clark said the joint initiative would ``talk about how we structure an international consensus for more liberal trade in knowledge products and services.' Economists say the Internet will fundamentally change the rules of corporations and international trade, which would have to be redrawn to facilitate e-commerce and the flow of knowledge. The India-U.S. talks would focus on the laws and tax policies to be put in place to encourage this process, Clark said. The Knowledge Trade Initiative, Clark added, would make its conclusions and recommendations within 12 months of its start. Rules to govern e-commerce could not be finalized at the ministerial round of World Trade Organization talks in Seattle last year after the conference failed to reach a consensus on a new global trade agreement. India, which wants to take advantage of its mushrooming software talent in a global situation of short supply, has said in the past that it is willing to adopt a liberal policy on taxing e-commerce transactions.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (1275)	3/19/2000 9:33:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1471

OT Thank Clinton, Amber Fort gets a facelift rajasthan-tourism.com rajasthan-tourism.com JAIPUR: Centuries old Amber Fort, near here, and Nayala village have to thank US President Bill Clinton for the development work ahead of his Rajasthan visit on March 22. Hundreds of labourers, artists and painters were pressed into service to renovate the Amber Fort, about 25 km from here, while development work was undertaken on a war footing at the village. Six helipads have also been built. Clinton will arrive in Nayala, dominated by Thakur community, on March 22 and meet elected women representatives of the panchayat. He will be given first hand information about decentralisation of power and rural development under the panchayati raj system....... indiatimes.com