US defended Amazon after article showed company bypassed Indian law

The note, contained in an email dated Feb. 18, said that India’s antitrust watchdog had reviewed many such allegations against U.S. e-commerce companies and found nothing wrong.

Biden’s envoy, former U.S. Secretary of State Kerry, is in charge of climate change policy. He was scheduled to speak that day with India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.

The U.S. government was concerned that Goyal would bring up the Reuters story, so it hastily drafted a note about the article in case he did, the emails show.”This could come up in the call since as you know Minister Goyal is prone to bring up tangential topics,” Thomas Carnegie, a U.S. embassy official in New Delhi, emailed an official at the USTR.Philip M. Ingeneri, another U.S. embassy official,