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09 Jul 2023

Commerce Minister Goyal To Visit UK For Free Trade Agreement Negotiations

The Minister's visit will be focused on the ongoing FTA negotiations between India and the UK besides discussing progress on a trade pact with ministers from the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) member countries, the commerce ministry said.

PM Modi Egypt Visit 2023

25 Jun 2023

India Should Consider Free Trade Agreement With Egypt: Exporters

India's exports increased to USD 4.1 billion in 2022-23 from USD 3.74 billion in 2021-22. However, imports from that country declined to about USD 2 billion against USD 3.5 billion in 2021-22. Fertiliser, crude oil, chemicals, raw cotton, and raw hides are major import items from Egypt.

21 Sep 2022

‘India will become the 3rd largest economy,’ says UK High Commissioner

UK High Commissioner says that India is going to become the third largest economy by the end of the decade The Commissioner said this in the India-UK business outreach trade and investment alliances program in New Delhi “The FTA will create more jobs, more growth, and more opportunities for India to grow and develop” he added

Free trade agreement

06 Jan 2022

Boris Johnson dismisses visa link with Indian free trade deal

Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh asked Johnson if a relaxation of visa controls from India was in the works to secure a trade agreement.

21 Mar 2018

CPEC now threatens to destroy our industry, say Pakistani officials

Pakistan slashed import tariffs on 6000 items. Now, there is no need for China to manufacture them in Pakistan, posing a threat to the SEZs set up along CPEC.

Gold import Indonesia

18 Sep 2017

600 kg gold imports from Indonesia; govt mulling curbs

The government has recently imposed restrictions on imports of the precious metal from South Korea on account of jump in gold imports from that country.

18 Sep 2017

Gold might be eliminated from FTA

Nirmala Sitharaman

07 Nov 2016

UK eager to have free trade agreement with India: Nirmala Sitharaman

The UK is "eager" to have a free trade agreement (FTA) with India as the pact is expected to further boost economic ties between the two.

07 Sep 2016

Govt taking a relook at free trade agreements: Nirmala

Government is reviewing FTAs that India has signed with trading partners after the industry voiced concerns about benefits of these pacts for domestic players.

Eurasian Economic Union

14 Jul 2016

Hope to start FTA talks with Eurasian Union soon: Nirmala Sitharaman

India is hoping to soon begin formal negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union with a view to enhance commerce and investment between the two regions.

06 Jul 2016

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01 Jun 2016

Fresh trouble for Lalit Modi: Former IPL commissioner, wife named in tax probe by Swiss govt

Email and SMS queries to former IPL commissioner about the notifications elicited no response.

04 Apr 2016

India keen to re-engage with EU on stalled FTA talks: Nirmala Sitharaman

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with EU leaders in Belgium, India today said it is keen to sign the free trade pact with the 28-nation bloc at the earliest and will soon approach the authority for a meeting of chief negotiators

India-EU Summit

31 Mar 2016

India-EU FTA talks fail to make headway, bottlenecks still remain

During the 13th India-EU Summit, held after a gap of four years and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and EU leaders, both the sides, however, welcomed the re-engagement of discussions for furthering the proposed pact.

31 Mar 2016

India, Belgium pitch for resumption of FTA talks

India and Belgium Tuesday pitched for resumption of the long stalled negotiations on the proposed India-EU free trade agreement (FTA) on "mutually agreed terms" as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart Charles Michel resolved to strengthen their bilateral ties.

30 Mar 2016

India, Australia may conclude trade pact within 2 months

Expecting to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with India within two months, a high level Australian delegation will visit New Delhi next week to iron out the pending issues.

20 Mar 2016

Next round of RCEP negotiations in April in Australia

Besides liberalisation of the services sector, the other issues, which may come up in the talks include matters related to goods tariffs.

16 Feb 2016

SIAM says no to import duty cut in EU FTA; Volkswagen in favour

With steps being taken up to resume India-EU FTA talks, automobile industry body SIAM Tuesday asked the government not to give in to the 28-nation bloc's demand to reduce import duties on fully-imported cars, even as German car maker Volkswagen came out in favour of such a cut.

04 Oct 2015

Black money: Swiss to publish first list of dormant assets in December

Having started making public the names of Indians and other foreigners with bank accounts that are under scanner, Switzerland will now publish in December a list of accounts that have remained unclaimed for 60 years.

24 Aug 2015

Crucial for India to become part of RCEP: Comm Secy

There are three important multilateral free trade agreements on the anvil and it's important for India to become part of RCEP with a view to stepping up its share of global trade and investment, a top government official said.

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