U.S. exports to India last year topped $17 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Imports from India amounted to more than $24 billion.  The SBA says the new partnership will help U.S. small businesses access India's growing markets.

The U.S. government and a group that promotes trade with India announced this week they have signed an agreement to help small businesses in both countries. The initiative was inked during Small Business Week in the U.S. VOA's Ravi Khanna has the fourth, and final, story in our series on the government's weeklong promotion of its small business owners.