P. Vaidyanathan Iyer in The Indian Express:
US-based SPX Communication will earn $1 million by supplying long-range antenna systems to two leading telecom operators for a pilot project in rural India. This will support five jobs in Raymond, Maine.
Robbins Company in Ohio will construct tunnels for Unity-IVRCL to supply water to Mumbai for $7 million. The deal will help sustain 35 jobs back home in Solon, Ohio.
These are small details of just two of the 20 deals (see chart below) signed or reiterated in Mumbai on the first day of US President Barack Obama’s visit to India. A dollar-by-dollar and job-by-job account of even small-ticket deals by the United States embassy in New Delhi underlines the centrality that US President Barack Obama has accorded to trade ties between the two countries. More:
For full-page view of the chart, please go to The Indian Express e-paper of November 8, 2010,
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