West Asia crisis a wake-up call for self-reliance: Commerce and industry minister Piyush GoyalThe West Asia crisis serves as a crucial reminder for Indian industries to boost self-reliance and efficiency. Commerce Minister Piyush Goy...
13 May, 2026, 12.11 AM IST
Need to utilise, leverage FTAs: Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal to industryIndian industry must actively use new free trade agreements. These pacts offer significant trade and investment prospects. Commerce Secreta...
11 May, 2026, 04.32 PM IST
Asia finance leaders say they are ready to act to stem volatility risksFinance leaders from China, Japan, South Korea, and ASEAN nations met in Samarkand. They pledged to watch for excessive financial market vo...
03 May, 2026, 07.24 PM IST
AI boom drowns out war fears to fuel Asia’s great market divideAsia's markets are split: South and Southeast Asia grapple with rising oil prices impacting trade and stocks, while North Asia's tech giant...
27 Apr, 2026, 11.21 AM IST
Piyush Goyal criticises Congress-era FTAs with Japan, Korea over export woesCommerce Minister Piyush Goyal criticized Congress-era trade pacts with Japan and South Korea, citing minimal export growth and surging imp...
17 Oct, 2025, 06.27 PM IST
ASEAN plus China, Japan, S.Korea vow to boost financial ties amid pandemicIn a joint statement issued after a virtual meeting on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) annual meetings, the ministers p...
03 May, 2021, 01.09 PM IST
Singapore RCEP meet: 'India not defensive, China slowing talks'It is China’s refusal to offer deep duty concessions to South Korea and Japan and differences within Asean countries that have slowed progr...
30 Aug, 2018, 07.47 AM IST
Government taking a relook at free trade agreements: Nirmala SitharamanIt is also negotiating similar pacts with several regions, including the European Union, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
07 Sep, 2016, 04.35 PM IST
RCEP talks: Chief negotiators to meet on July 18-19 in Jakarta, tariff talks on agendaFor Australia, New Zealand and China, Delhi has proposed to eliminate duties on only 42.5% of products as India does not have any kind of F...
03 Jul, 2016, 12.41 PM IST
Cracks appear in Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership over tariffThe differences of opinion were so much that the 10-country Asean submitted a paper on single tariff in the recent talks last week in New Z...
22 Jun, 2016, 07.04 AM IST
India offers wider duty cuts at Regional Comprehensive Economic PartnershipIn negotiations that concluded late last week in Thailand, New Delhi made an initial offer to give duty free access to 70% of product categ...
18 Feb, 2015, 04.48 AM IST
India to resist tariff cuts at RCEP meetingThe pact seeks to cover goods, services, investments, competition and intellectual property, and is targeted for conclusion by the end of 2...
09 Feb, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
- India moving fast to complete FTA talks with Japan, S Korea
India will move fast to complete negotiations in the next few months for pacts with Japan and South Korea.
21 Sep, 2008, 12.28 PM IST
- Japan, ASEAN welcome new trade deal
Leaders of Japan and the 10-nation ASEAN bloc hailed the conclusion of talks on a free trade pact, which they hope to implement as early as...
21 Nov, 2007, 10.48 AM IST
- Japan, ASEAN reach Free Trade Agreement
Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have reached a free trade agreement.
27 Aug, 2007, 11.58 AM IST
- India supports Japan's proposal on Pan-Asia FTA
India on Thursday strongly supported Japan's proposal for a Pan-Asia trade block that will include 10 members of Asean and six other countr...
24 Aug, 2006, 02.40 PM IST
- Japan proposes new free trade bloc
Japanese officials have proposed a sprawling 16-nation free-trade grouping with China, South Korea, Australia, India, New Zealand and the 1...
18 Aug, 2006, 12.31 AM IST