US is India preferred trade partner journey to be USD 5 economy: envoy

Bilateral trade is growing at 10 per cent on a year-to-year basis and reached USD 160 billion in 2019, he said."This makes me bullish about our relationship. The best is yet to come. Referring to his first stint in Washington DC as a young Indian diplomat in 1997, Sandhu said he always sensed the potential of the US-India partnership and wondered how it could move forward.