Jaishankar focuses on deepening partnership with Bahraini counterpartEarlier this month, the Bahrain Foreign Minister was in India, where he co-chaired the Fifth India-Bahrain High Joint Commission (HJC) alon...
India, Bahrain begin negotiations for ambitious trade dealIndia and Bahrain are advancing their economic ties, initiating negotiations for a comprehensive trade deal and an investment pact. Discuss...
India’s copper industry sounds alarm as UAE imports surge under CEPAThe Indian Primary Copper Producers Association warns that surging copper rod imports from the UAE under CEPA threaten domestic investments...
Can Indo-Canada relations improve with Carney’s winMark Carney's election victory raises hopes for improved Canada-India relations, contrasting Trudeau's strained ties. Carney's focus on mut...
India intrigued by Australian envoy's post on StainesStaines had worked in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district and looked after leprosy patients and villagers who lived in abject poverty for almost 3...
$50.5 bn and growing: The India-UAE CEPA is pushing up trade and strengthening supply chainsThe United Arab Emirates’ Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, says a comprehensive economic partnership with I...
World facing polycrisis, G20 must show the way: Korean President Yoon Suk YeolYoon described as meaningful India's focus on the Global South and spoke about enhancing defence and technology ties between the 2 countrie...
Finalising balanced FTAs with the EU, UK, Canada, Israel and Gulf countries: MoS Commerce and IndustryEngineering sector growth in the future would immensely contribute towards India figuring among the top 3 nations in G20 in terms of GDP, s...
India, Bangladesh to jointly counter terrorism, fundamentalism; to start talks on CEPA soonIndia and Bangladesh signed an interim water sharing agreement on the Kushiyara river, which would benefit people of southern Assam and the...
Exports cross $380 bn this fiscal so far; likely to hit $410 bn in FY22: Piyush Goyal"As of March 7, 2022, our exports are over USD 380 billion and well poised to cross USD 400 billion and probably closing the year at USD 41...
What’s driving India’s free trade pacts despite the world's protectionist stance?In the past year, New Delhi has inked two free trade deals — the first one was with Mauritius in February 2021 and the second with the Unit...
India’s free trade agreements are ‘hurting domestic firms’. Here’s the formula to make FTAs workThe country has relied on FTAs to improve its trade reach. But these agreements are made in such a way that it hurts, instead of stimulatin...
India may impose safeguard duty on Phthalic Anhydride imports from South KoreaPhthalic Anhydride is a chemical intermediate in plastic industry. “It is considered appropriate to recommend bilateral safeguard measure i...
Big copper makers at war with smaller cos over customs dutySecondary producers seek reduction in duty on copper cathode & copper scrap while large players want it to remain at 5%.
SAIL urges government to review trade pacts with Japan, KoreaData also shows that steel imports accounted for 14 per cent of the country's total consumption, which rose 4.3 per cent in the last fiscal.
- PM against protectionist measures
Speaking out against protectionist measures imposed by industrialised nations, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the developin...
- CEPA between India, Sri Lankan no threat to island nation
A leading Sri Lankan trade body has allayed fears that Indians would take over the jobs on offer in the island nation following the signing...