India
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17-Oct-2018 Business Standard
Lack of convergence, FTA hurdles to plague any US-India trade deal: Report
Any US-India bilateral trade deal as mentioned by President Donald Trump will encounter challenges given the lack of convergence between the two sides on trade issues and their different approach to free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, according to a research paper released by a Singaporean think-tank.
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15-Oct-2018 KNN
Despite agreements India’s textile trade has underperformed: Trade Advisor, MoT
Despite Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), India’s textile trade has not been performing well, said Aditi Das Rout, Trade Advisor, Ministry of Textiles.
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13-Oct-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine
RCEP: Pressure mounts on India for partial conclusion of pace by year-end
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to be under pressure to agree to a year-end partial conclusion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) pact that India is negotiating with 15 countries, including China, when he attends the regional summit next month in Singapore.
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1-Oct-2018 Yahoo
CEPA with Bangladesh can be template for enhancing trade in South Asia: Suresh Prabhu
India and Bangladesh have proposed early conclusion of a Compressive Economic Cooperation Agreement to boost bilateral trade and investment and set an example for giving a fillip to regional trade in South Asia.
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27-Sep-2018 Money Control
India proposes free trade agreement with Bangladesh
India has proposed Bangladesh to consider negotiating a comprehensive free trade agreement with a view to promote two-way commerce and investments.
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26-Sep-2018 Live Mint
What a free trade pact with the US means for India
Entering into negotiations for a free trade agreement with the world’s largest economy is not going to be a walk in the woods, nor a fireside chat.
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26-Sep-2018 Deccan Herald
India, Mauritius to hold next round of FTA talks from Wednesday
Mauritius is also holding negotiations for a similar pact with China, with which India has a huge trade deficit.
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19-Sep-2018 La Via Campesina South Asia
Indian farmers reject RCEP trade agreement, plan major national level agitations
Two major farmers protests are planned in New Delhi on 2 October and 30 November and RCEP will be high on the agenda.
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17-Sep-2018 BusinessLine
India in a catch-22 situation on free trade pact with the US
While many officials are against a pact as they believe it will hurt domestic industry and agriculture, there is a small but influential group in the government that favours an FTA.
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13-Sep-2018 Business Line
RCEP deal can be disastrous for India
India’s FTA experience and existing trade imbalance with RCEP nations show that such a trade pact will hurt Indian producers.
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10-Sep-2018 Daily FT
Joint feasibility study on FTA with Bangladesh
Next round of negotiations on Thai FTA in two weeks. Joint feasibility study on FTA with Bangladesh to be implemented soon.
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10-Sep-2018 Business Standard
RCEP countries open to easing investment rules, agree to ease ISDS clauses
In a bid to fast-track the deal, most nations have agreed to ease the investor-state-dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses.
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6-Sep-2018 Economic Times
India proposes stricter country of origin norms in RCEP pact
India has mooted stricter rules of origin in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement to prevent Chinese goods from indirectly flooding the country.
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5-Sep-2018 UNI
RCEP talks may spill over to 2019, Govt to hold parleys with China, others: Prabhu
India will hold talks with Australia, New Zealand and China on Free-trade agreement in addition to Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
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5-Sep-2018 Financial Express
RCEP talks: India manages major breakthrough
New Delhi won’t not take additional commitment on intellectual property rights beyond the TRIPS agreement it has already accepted at the WTO; investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism only for limited sectors.
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4-Sep-2018 The Times of India
India, Singapore ink protocol to amend CECA; to boost bilateral trade
India and Singapore signed the second protocol amending the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which will boost bilateral trade, with both sides agreeing to expand the coverage of tariff concessions.
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3-Sep-2018 Economic Times
India, Singapore launch next round of free trade agreement review
Singapore is the second largest trading partner of India within ASEAN and India is the largest trading partner of Singapore in South Asia
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28-Aug-2018 The Tribune
PM to attend Nepal summit amid push for free trade pact
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will head to Kathmandu to attend the fourth summit meeting of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) on August 30 and 31.
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20-Aug-2018 The Hindu
RCEP and beyond
The Centre does not appear to be comfortable with the general drift of negotiations in the 16-member Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
