[inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to the Hudson Institute. I am tim weinstein, president and ceo and im delighted to welcome everyone here this morning. Today as they think everyone in this room knows kicks off a very critical week for the u. S. India relationship. As Prime Minister modi is here in washington for a first meeting with President Trump. Here at Hudson Institute, we are delighted to host a special event hosted on the future of the u. S. India commercial partnership and we are also grateful to our friends at cspan for covering this event live. U. S. India bilateral trade has an estimated 11,420,000,000,000, less than one fifth of the u. S. China 640 billion bilateral trade relationship. India is americas ninth largest supplier of foreign goods and 18th largest export market. The worlds first in the worlds six largest economies respectively, we are hesitant to believe there is significant room for growth. The u. S. India relationship is an important one here
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