Danone forays into kids health drink categoryDanone said in a statement its new brand, AptaGrow, will address nutrition requirements of children in the age group of three-six years. Th...
View: There's no hurry for India to sign the RCEP, given its unresolved issues with FTAsIndia has FTAs with 13 of the 15 RCEP countries — including China. The Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (Apta), a grouping of seven countries, ...
View: Nothing wrong with reviewing the economic rationale and fallout of India’s varied trade agreementsCan one unambiguously conclude that all RTAs lead to trade-investment creation? No. The answer is empiricaland depends on specifics of the ...
Trade pacts under lens as India seeks to check Chinese importsDelhi probes trade deals that are leading to preferential rates being lower on finished products.
China wooes Bangladesh, provides tariff exemption for 97% of exports from DhakaBeijing is offering to waive off 97% tariff on 5,161 items that Bangladesh trades with China.
How India can solve the Chinese puzzle without hurting itselfBy slowing Chinese imports, India would affect its own competitiveness, growth and exports.
Is this Hindi-Chini bye bye on trade front? Maybe notIndia’s exports to China in the April 2019-February 2020 period amounted to $15.54 billion.
Physical copy of key export document mandatory for shipments to Thailand, Vietnam under FTAThe government on Friday restored the procedure for issuance of physical copy of certificates of origin as exporters had expressed difficul...
India can seek duty cuts from China on 200 itemsExports have been hit as China has given deeper duty cuts to India's competitors.
India plans trade deal to boost exports to ChinaThe plan includes seeking duty waiver on a raft of products under the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement.
India to provide tariff concessions on 3,142 items to APTA membersAPTA is an initiative under the UN ESCAP for trade expansion through exchange of tariff concessions among developing country members of the...
China to reduce tariffs on 8,549 types of goods from India, 4 other Asian countriesThe move came after a new arrangement was reached during the fourth round of tariff concession negotiations among the six APTA members in J...
Cabinet approves deeper tariff cuts to APTA countriesThe margin of preference (MoP) has been increased from 23.9% of 33.45%, implying that duties on each of the products will be reduced by a t...
Government approves exchange of tariff concessions under APTASince this is a preferential trade agreement, the basket of items as well as extent of tariff concessions are enlarged during the trade neg...
Commerce department seeks Cabinet nod to expand Asia-Pacific Trade PactThe government has been seeking the inclusion of domestic manufacturing and employment generation in India’s trade agreement negotiations.
India’s trade deficit with China to double in the next two yearsThe statement pointed out that the approach for electronics exports promotion must include discouraging non-essential imports.
- India set to open up trade in services with APTA members
The government is understood to have approved India's commitment to opening up trade in commercial services and investment with members of ...