One FTA step at a time: India needs to curb its new-found enthusiasm for free trade agreementsIndia needs to be clear why it wishes to have an FTA with a particular country. The list of countries we have preferential agreements with ...
01 Sep, 2021, 11.15 PM IST
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, ...
10 Dec, 2020, 11.03 PM IST
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 ...
18 Aug, 2020, 12.37 AM IST
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.
22 Jun, 2020, 09.59 AM IST
How India can solve the Chinese puzzle without hurting itselfBy slowing Chinese imports, India would affect its own competitiveness, growth and exports.
17 Jun, 2020, 04.38 PM IST
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.
17 Jun, 2020, 08.03 AM IST
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...
22 May, 2020, 07.45 PM IST
India can seek duty cuts from China on 200 itemsExports have been hit as China has given deeper duty cuts to India's competitors.
30 Oct, 2018, 08.49 AM IST
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.
24 Oct, 2018, 08.32 PM IST
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...
02 Jul, 2018, 03.01 PM IST
What will it take to curb lawlessness in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh?A little over four months later, the badlands of Uttar Pradesh appear as they were; some would say they have turned worse since Adityanath,...
23 Jul, 2017, 11.59 AM IST
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...
12 Sep, 2016, 03.05 PM IST
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.
27 Jun, 2016, 06.34 AM IST
Railway Budget 2013: Full text of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's speechBansal, on Tuesday, presented his maiden Railway Budget in the Lok Sabha announcing a slew of measures to improve passenger experience and ...
26 Feb, 2013, 03.04 PM IST
- 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 ...
25 Apr, 2010, 11.19 AM IST
- New Delhi not to freely ink trade pacts with controlled economies
The government may take a cautious approach while negotiating free trade agreements (FTAs) with countries such as China that do not have ma...
18 Dec, 2007, 02.23 AM IST