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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...
Zero duty imports from Nepal become major concern for Darjeeling’s tea and edible oil industry“Zero duty imports of Nepal tea cannot be stopped under SAFTA. What is required is more stringent checking by the administration so that ch...
Curb excess import of edible oils from Nepal, trade body SEA tells governmentOne of the SEA members complained, "In Tamil Nadu, Erode has become a big hub for Nepalese refined sunflower oil and slowly Chennai one too...
Cheap oil from SAFTA nations hits farmers hereSolvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) has taken up the matter with the government.
Nepal’s participation in OBOR in its national interest: Nepal PMTalking about participation in OBOR, Oli said that this was important for his country because Nepal didn’t want to perennially languish in ...
Narendra Modi government to review 'most favoured nation' status to PakistanBoth India and Pakistan are signatories to the GATT, according to which they have to treat all WTO member countries as favoured trading par...
Pakistan will have to pay a heavy price for Balochistan policy & economic corridor with ChinaThe Baloch have continued to revolt and die. In all the various battles fought by the Baloch, an estimated 50,000 have been killed.
PM Singh leaves for Myanmar tomorrow for BIMSTEC SummitSingh leaves for Myanmar tomorrow to attend the BIMSTEC Summit where he is expected to make a strong pitch for giving a fillip to India's L...
- Pakistan to stick to the deadline for giving most favoured nation status to India
The two commerce secretaries, who concluded their two-days meet in Islamabad on Friday, agreed to allow most goods to be traded through the...
- India, Bangladesh extend trade protocol, to liberalize trade
India and Bangladesh today agreed to renew the bilateral trade agreement, which expires on March 31, for three years.
- India taking steps to reduce 'sensitive lists' for free trade
India on Tuesday announced that it was taking steps to reduce the "sensitive lists" of items for free trade as it pitched for early ratific...
- Saarc: Exploding trade myths
It is a myth that with tariff liberalisation, the relatively bigger countries of Safta will capture the smaller nations' markets.
- Pak links trade to Kashmir
Pakistan prime minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday reiterated that Kashmir was the `key dispute’ between India and Pakistan and linked free tr...
- Comply with SAFTA, India tells Pak
Pak's non-compliance with SAFTA has "fractured" the solidarity among member states, India said.
- EU parrots stale logic on NPT
The European Union continued to insist that India move towards the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and a...
- Indo-Pak trade linked to political reality
Maintaining that trade relations with India are linked to "political reality" and cannot be viewed in "isolation," Pakistan has refuted a r...
- ‘Pak's limited application of SAFTA jeopardizes treaty’
India on Thursday said Pakistan's decision to have only limited application of South Asian Free Trade Area provisions to India jeopardised ...
- Govt weighs non-tariff barriers on vanaspati imports from Sri Lanka
The government is toying with the idea of imposing certain non-tariff barriers on its import from the southern neighbour.