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Union Minister Piyush Goyal welcomes Todd McClay, New Zealand’s Minister for Trade & Investment on April 24, 2026. Picture: X/@PiyushGoyal India and New Zealand will on Monday (April 27, 2026) sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that will remove tariffs on 100% of India’s exports to New Zealand, and either sharply reduce or remove tariffs…
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. File | Photo Credit: PTI Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday (December 10, 2025) said negotiations for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Oman and New Zealand are in their last phase, and both are expected to be concluded soon. He also indicated that negotiations for a trade…
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Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal. File | Photo Credit: ANI India and New Zealand began the fourth round of negotiations towards a free trade agreement, with the Indian team visiting Auckland until November 7, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced on Monday (November 3, 2025). “Negotiations in this round are focusing…
File picture of Union Minister Piyush Goyal and EU’s trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Christophe Hansen over a discussion on the Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union. in New Delhi on September 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The first round of negotiations for a free…
A view of a sand sculpture depicting Donald Trump at Puri beach in Odisha on November 6, 2024 after he won the U.S. Presidential elections. | Photo Credit: Reuters Five years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a crowd in Houston, Texas, that India had “connected well” with Republican candidate Donald Trump and followed it…
The Labour Party’s election manifesto for the recent polls also committed to clinching the deal. File. | Photo Credit: AFP With the new government taking charge in Britain, senior officials of India and the U.K. will hold the next round of talks this month for the proposed free trade agreement to resolve the pending issues…
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Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Days before the U.K.’s general election, the opposition Labour Party’s shadow Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, reiterated that his party would reset its relationship with India. Mr Lammy is all but certain to be the country’s next Foreign Secretary, given that Labour is most likely —…
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“While India’s total imports from the UAE fell 9.8% from $53.2 billion in FY23 to $48 billion in FY24, imports of gold and silver skyrocketed 210%, from $3.5 billion to $10.7 billion,” GTRI report said. | Photo Credit: Reuters “India’s gold and silver imports from its free trade agreement (FTA) partner UAE have skyrocketed 210%…
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As India signs a Free Trade Agreement with 4 European Nations, is there hope for other negotiations- from the UK and EU to Oman, Gulf and Eurasian countries? Do FTAs help increase trade substantially? And are they a challenge to the global economic order under the WTO- Up ahead, an interview with Irish Trade minister…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Interim Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha, at Parliament House in New Delhi on Feb. 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI India is negotiating bilateral investment treaties with different countries with a view to promote foreign inflows, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on February 1. She said that…