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Strict rules of origin in India-UAE trade pact over routing concerns

Dairy, tobacco among others excluded from India-UAE trade pact, says official

Australia's trade minister to visit India to advance FTA negotiations

An official statement by Tehan's office on Tuesday said he will travel to India to advance negotiations on a free trade agreement and promote Australia as a premium destination for students, tourist

Australia's trade minister to visit India to further FTA negotiations

Australia's Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Dan Tehan will travel to India on Wednesday

India on track to achieve $400 bn exports, negotiating FTAs: Goyal

India is on track to achieve the USD 400-billion export target in the current fiscal and is negotiating trade agreements with countries, said Goyal

FTA offers huge benefits for British businesses: UK PM Boris Johnson

Piyush Goyal launched the negotiations between India and the UK for a Free Trade Agreement between the two countries in the presence of British International Trade Secretary

India, UK FTA to boost cooperation in tourism, tech, startups: Piyush Goyal

Union Minister of Commerce and Trade Piyush Goyal said that the agreement will expand cooperation in tourism, technology, startups, education, climate change, etc.

Goyal meets UK Secretary for International Trade over free trade agreement

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday met UK Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan here for the formal launch of negotiations for a free trade agreement. Both sides will hold deliberations over an array of trade opportunities of mutual interest, benefiting India and the UK. "Met with UK Secretary of State for International Trade @AnnieTrev for the launch of India-UK Free Trade Agreement Negotiations," Goyal said in a tweet. This agreement is aimed at liberalising norms and reducing customs duties to boost trade in goods and services, besides promoting investments. India's exports to the UK stood at USD 8.15 billion in 2020-21, while imports aggregated at USD 4.95 billion. India's main exports to the UK include ready-made garments and textiles, gems and jewellery, engineering goods, petroleum products, transport equipment, spices, pharmaceuticals and marine products. Imports from Britain include precious and semi-precious stones, ores an

UK announces launch of free trade agreement negotiations with India

The UK announced the launch of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with India, describing it as a "golden opportunity" to put British businesses at the "front of the queue" of the Indian economy.

India and UK to start free trade agreement talks in new year

Data, fintech and IT are the buzzwords doing the rounds

India's FTA ambitions in perspective

A protectionist tariff structure and an inability to integrate with global value chains may prove to be major challenges for India as it seeks deeper trade agreements

IP, tariffs, data protection to dominate UK-India FTA negotiations

Managing Director of UK India Business Council Kevin McCole said there is a strong political will and desire from the two countries to conclude a comprehensive free trade agreement

China weaponised trade, difficult to see it as trusted partner: Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott on Friday said that China has weaponised trade and it is difficult to see Beijing as a trusted partner.

Hopes from India's free trade deals need not be high

Globally, there are over 350 Preferential Trade Agreem­e­n­ts (PTAs) or Free Trade Agre­e­ments (FTAs) or Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs). Most of them are defunct

Trying to include education as key sector of cooperation in FTA talk: Goyal

India is trying to include education as a key sector of cooperation in free trade agreements that the country is negotiating with its trading partners, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said

India, Australia to include e-commerce in final free trade pact

India and Australia have agreed to include e-commerce in the final free trade agreement which is likely to be put in place by the end of next year

India, Australia agree to conclude free trade agreement by 2022-end

India and Australia on Thursday agreed to conclude the long-pending free trade agreement by the end of 2022 and an early harvest trade deal by as early as December

Free Trade Agreement is the next frontier in India-US ties: USIBC president

Nisha Desai Biswal, president of US-India Business Council and a former US diplomat, was speaking at a dinner hosted by Indiaspora

Businesses should give useful inputs for FTA negotiations

FTAs have to be signed keeping two things in mind - mutually reciprocal terms and focusing on products and services with maximum export potential

Singapore parliament passes motion on jobs, livelihood for Singaporeans

After a marathon debate that started on Tuesday afternoon and carried on past midnight, the 16-year-old Singapore-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) was singled out

India's revamped FTA strategy

Its focus is at odds with the country's imperative of having an employment-promoting trade policy