India and New Zealand on Sunday announced the resumption of negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement after a halt of 10 years.
India and the European Union are scheduled to begin the next round of talks for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) from Monday in Brussels with the aim of concluding the talks by the end of this year, a senior official said.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday expressed the hope that India and the EU, which have been negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for almost 23 years, will conclude the pact by the end of this year.
After US President Donald Trump's threat to hit the European Union (EU), a 27-member bloc, with 25 per cent tariffs, a meeting between the top leadership of India and the EU on Friday is expected to give fresh push to efforts to seal an ambitious free trade agreement (FTA).
In terms of FTAs, India has signed nearly eight key agreements this year.
India looks for equity, balance and fair trade when negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with countries, the government.
The ministers from the two countries were speaking at the 25th Session of the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical, and Cultural Cooperation held here.
Indian tourists are rapidly emerging as a significant growth engine for global tourism, with a 12 per cent growth in the first half of this year, compared with the same period in 2019 before the pandemic, according to a report on Wednesday.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Tourism and Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that FTAs during the period January- May, 2024 were 40.72 lakh as compared to 37.32 lakh in January-May 2023, registering a growth of 9.1 per cent with respect to 2023.
Economic, domestic, and global security will be at the heart of the UK Foreign Secretary’s first visit to India, the British High Commission said.
