[...] the pursuit of better access to visas for short-term skilled migration has led the Indian negotiating team at the WTO to side with the developed world in promoting full-scale liberalisation of services. Such liberalisation measures are not necessarily in the interests of the rest of the Indian economy, nor indeed of any developing economy. This is why India was the only major developing country to side with developed countries in these negotiations. [...] Access to H1-B visas is now being used by the US government as a key bargaining chip to gain better access to the Indian market in industrial and farm goods.