{"id":301163,"date":"2018-08-05T06:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T06:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301163"},"modified":"2018-08-05T06:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T06:10:57","slug":"us-grants-sta-1-status-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-grants-sta-1-status-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"US grants STA-1 status to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300641 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/usindia-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-696x351.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia-833x420.jpg 833w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/usindia.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/>India has become the third Asian country after South Korea and Japan to get the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) status by the United States (US).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a federal notification issued by US, India became the 37th country in the world to be designated the STA-1 status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis action befits India\u2019s status as a Major Defence Partner and recognises\u201d the country\u2019s membership in three of the four export control regimes \u2014 the MTCR, WA and AG, the federal notification said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the latest notification from US, India is now part of three of the four multilateral export control regimes \u2014 the MTCR; the Wassenaar Arrangement, and the Australia Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India was earlier listed in STA-2 category along with Albania, Hong Kong, Israel, Malta, Singapore, South Africa and Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has become the third Asian country after South Korea and Japan to get the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) status by the United States (US). In a federal notification issued by US, India became the 37th country in the world to be designated the STA-1 status. \u201cThis action befits India\u2019s status as a Major Defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,4026,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301164,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301163\/revisions\/301164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}