The Cabinet Secretariat has advised ministries of information technology, agriculture and animal husbandry to go through the department of commerce in dealing with US officials.

The US has been seeking unconditional market access for its dairy products in India, besides incentives and tariff concessions for its ICT products including mobile phones.  These issues are already being discussed in the trade package that the two countries are negotiating.

However, some US officials approached the ministries concerned in an attempt to push their trade agenda.