new delhi following talks between us commerce secretary gina raimondo and commerce and industry minister piyush goyal on friday there are also indications that the us may act as the testbed for homegrown 5g connectivity programmefurther external affairs minister s jaishankar and raimondo launched strategic trade dialogue to address export controls explore ways of enhancing high technology commerce and facilitate technology transfer between the two countriesread alsous expands crackdown on china with export ban on inspur bgithe us government announced export restrictions for dozens of chinese entities including server maker inspur group co and units of genetics firm bgi citing activities contrary to us national security and foreign policy interestsignificantly raimondo had an unscheduled meeting with pm modi the talks cover the concern heightened by chinese expansionism and russias war on ukraine over the need to cut dependence on selfaggrandising players by diversifying supply chains and restrict the supply of dual use technologies to unfriendly powerswhile semiconductors seemed to be the immediate focus the us commerce secretary also said there was scope for the supply chain to expand to other electronic goods besides she disclosed that her discussions with nsa ajit doval focused on working with a trusted vendor base in what was seen to be a reference to the realisation to move away from chinese equipment manufacturers like telecom majors huawei and zte which have been seen a security riskthe mou on semiconductors is seen to be crucial given that the us is trying secure supply chains in the postcovid period and enacting the chips and science act to channelise investments of over 50 billion the statement is seen to be an attempt to develop a supply chain that feeds into each other0102gina raimondo piyush goyal hold indiausa commercial dialogue in delhiit also comes amid curbs imposed by the us commerce department on american companies from exporting to china technology software and equipment used in producing advanced computing chips and supercomputers there have been reports of the biden administration working on possible investment restrictions as well in the coming monthsasked if the deal with india was part of efforts to decouple from china raimondo said that the benign elements of trade with beijing will continue but shared the fears over use of technology for military use by the communist regime the us does not seek to decouple from china nor does it seek a technological decoupling from china what we seek to do is ensure that certain technologies where the us is ahead and where chinas explicit strategy is to have these technologies and deploy them in the chinese military apparatus those are technologies that we have used export controls to ban sales to china what it is about though is keeping eyes wide open to the fact that china is explicitly trying to get access to american technologies for use in its military she said0248india us sign mou on semiconductor supply chain in boost for new delhi to attract investment in chipmaking