
Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has said that headway is being made in textiles specially exports of cotton and yarn, which amounts over US $ 4 billion. India is pressing for market access for garments and apparels. After her over two-and-a- half hour talk with her Chinese counterpart Gao Hucheng, Sitharaman said that expectations are high about large-scale Chinese investments in India which could be announced during President Xi Jinping’s visit to Delhi, expected in the third week of this month. “As much as we are working, they are also working to have good decisions announced during this high-profile visit,” she said.