India - Australia

India, Australia trade ministers to discuss bilateral, regional trade pacts

25-Jun-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine

India and Australia will discuss ways to re-start the long pending proposed bilateral free trade pact and iron out obstacles in the on-going negotiations for the ambitious Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership at the Joint Ministerial Commission meeting in Canberra next week.

India in talks with China, Australia, New Zealand to crack mega trade deal

21-Jun-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine

India is holding bilateral dialogues with China, Australia and New Zealand to get them to agree to less ambitious tariff cuts for sensitive products. The aim is to end the logjam in the negotiations for the mega regional trade bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

FTA, investments to figure in Suresh Prabhu’s visit to Australia

12-Jun-2018 The Economic Times

The talks on free trade agreement with Australia likely to be on the agenda of India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu to Canberra on June 26.

The ’Indo-Pacific Strategy’ emerges as a counter to China’s ’One Belt, One Road’

26-Feb-2018 Taiwan News

A Japanese official speaking in Washington discussed conditions for Japan’s participation in China’s BRI project, while also suggesting China seek a partner role in the emerging ’Indo-Pacific Strategy’.

Moving forward in global trade

19-Feb-2018 Bangkok Post

Thailand has entered into negotiations for a number of free trade agreements (FTA). Its first FTA was the Asean Free Trade Area, signed in 1992. The country has six FTAs with India, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Peru and Chile.

Agriculture Minister heads to India to resolve pulse tariff dispute, but warns ’megaphone diplomacy’ won’t work

10-Jan-2018 ABC News

Australia’s Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud will travel to India in an attempt to resolve a dispute over tariffs on Australian chickpeas and lentils.

RCEP In India: A creamy deal for transnational dairy corporations, growing resistance from farmers

5-Oct-2017 Countercurrents.org

The Modi governmentmust stop the RCEP from destroying rural livelihoods.

RCEP meeting in September likely to discuss India’s proposal on services pact

18-Aug-2017 Livemint

India has made a counter-proposal to make the bilateral services agreement between Australia and New Zealand the basis of the services agreement under RCEP

RCEP will undo the gains of food self-sufficiency built so assiduously over the decades

11-Aug-2017 Ground Reality

International trade negotiations currently underway hold a big threat to the future of Indian agriculture

India’s ‘protectionist bent’ for agricultural products delaying FTA: Australia

25-Jul-2017 Live Mint

“At this point in time, I’m not seeing a willingness from India that would reflect a desire to achieve an FTA,” Australian minister Steve Ciobo says

Indian farmers’ debt wipe demands show why free trade deal with Australia is unlikely

16-Jun-2017 ABC

When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited India two months ago, he made much of reviving stalled free trade talks — but developments in India this week show the prospects of eventual success are remote at best.

Aus, NZ trying to corner India in Oceania

9-May-2017 Sunday Guardian Live

One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most insightful, if low key, foreign policy initiatives was to work to deepen relations with more than a dozen island nations of Oceania.

Australia’s 457 visa decision likely to hit free-trade talks with India, officials hint

19-Apr-2017 The Guardian

The Australian government’s decision to scrap a working visa used primarily by Indians is likely to set back efforts to secure a free-trade agreement between the two countries.

Having a good look at proposed FTA with India: Australia

18-Apr-2017 Business Standard

Australian trade minister said India’s asking goes well beyond anything that Australia has done, in terms of any FTAs put in place, and Australia is not willing to go to that extent.

Australia and India keen on timely conclusion of RCEP

17-Apr-2017 Financial Express

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Malcom Turnbull, the two countries expressed their keenness to secure a timely conclusion of a high-quality RCEP