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China-India

China and India, the two giants of Asia, have been talking (unconvincingly) of the possibility of a bilateral free trade agreement for several years. A feasibility study was completed in October 2008, but there is much opposition from India’s business sector as well as many other political complications that are likely to keep the idea on a very low flame for a while.

last update: May 2012
Photo: PP Yoonus / CC BY-SA 3.0

China keen to negotiate bilateral investment treaty, set up industrial parks
29-Mar-2018 Business Line
China has expressed its interest in negotiating a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with India following the termination of its earlier treaty.
India, China plan FTA breakthrough
27-Mar-2018 The Hindu
Chinese Commerce Minister says the two countries will build a closer partnership in development.
China wants FTA with India: Chinese Consul General
16-Mar-2018 United News of India
China wants to have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India to boost two-way trade between both countries, Chinese Consul General Ma Zhanwu said.
India-China trade talks deadlocked
14-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Trade talks between India and China remained deadlocked with neither side willing to offer concessions to end the impasse, official sources said.
China willing to launch FTA talks with India: Li Keqiang
21-May-2013 Economic Times
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang today offered Indian goods more access to his country’s market for narrowing bilateral trade deficit and expressed willingness to start talks for a free trade agreement with India.
’Only area where Indo-China ties doing well is commerce’
17-Dec-2010
The first visit of a major Chinese leader in more than four years has yielded a bland joint communiqué skirting core Indian concerns but incorporating a commitment to rapidly expand a lopsided trade relationship that has already turned India into the raw-material appendage of a neo-colonial Chinese economy.
Trade imbalance to cast shadow on China-India talks
10-Dec-2010
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao faces a tough task when he arrives in India next week to allay New Delhi’s fears over China’s rise as a global power , and to smooth tensions in an often fractious relationship.
78 pct of Taiwanese still don’t understand ECFA, says DPP
5-Apr-2010 Taiwan News
An estimated 78 percent of Taiwanese still did not understand what the planned Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement with China was about, an opposition Democratic Progressive Party poll showed yesterday.
China offers to accelerate trade talks with India
5-Apr-2010 FT
China has offered to accelerate talks with India aimed at negotiating a bilateral trade agreement in a bid to balance a burgeoning commercial relationship between two of Asia’s largest economies that is now heavily skewed in Beijing’s favour.
Canada and India explore a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
11-Jun-2009 Blakes
Earlier this year, Canada’s Minister of International Trade, Stockwell Day, and Mr. Kamal Nath, India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, jointly announced the agreement of both countries to initiate exploratory discussions aimed at creating a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA).