Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal during a discussion with EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic on the India-EU FTA and the progress of the Trade and Technology Council, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: ANI The two sides have agreed to conclude the agreement in two phases on account of the uncertain … Read more
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, held a key meeting with European Union Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Maros Sefcovic, in Brussels to discuss the progress of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA).Both sides reaffirmed their commitment to concluding the long-awaited trade deal by the end of 2025. Goyal described the dialogue … Read more
New Delhi: Negotiations for all the proposed free trade agreements, including those with the UK and European Union (EU), are progressing as per the schedule and the country’s FTAs are not paused, a top government official has said. The official said that an impression is going around that FTAs are paused, which is not correct. … Read more
New Delhi: The next round of India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations is likely to be held in the first quarter of next year even as the two sides made limited progress on issues such as rules of origin and government procurement in the just concluded ninth round from September 23-27. In government procurement, … Read more
The rush for free trade agreements (FTAs) is real. A decade and a half after economist Jagdish Bhagwati infamously dubbed preferential pacts as termites in the global trade system, the world is seeing an uptake in bilateral pacts, taking the momentum away from multilateralism. India, too, is aligned with the prevailing trend. After a long … Read more
The civil society, comprising farmers’ groups, trade unions, patient groups, traders, women’s rights organisations, academia and NGOs, on Friday opposed the proposed India-EU free trade agreement, the third round of whose negotiations concluded this week, citing adverse impact on farmers, fishers, patients, traders and New Delhi’s digital industrialisation strategy. Representatives of the the Forum for … Read more