India, Russia to talk FTA, ways to up bilateral trade
PTI Trade ministers of India and Russia are expected to chalk out a roadmap for signing of a free trade pact with the Eurasian Economic Union and take up issues to boost bilateral trade at a meeting at Chennai on February 16. The Eurasian Economic Union includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her Russian counterpart Denis Manturov are slated to address the India-Russia Business Forum after inaugurating the International Engineering Sourcing Show (IESS). The ministers are expected to take stock of the report of the joint study group on the feasibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the India and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and decide on the timeframe for bilateral negotiations and ...
Free trade talks between EU and India to resume in Jan
The Dollar Business Bureau Even in the absence of FTA between the EU and India, bilateral trade escalated to $97.6 billion (€72.5 billion) in 2014 from $31 billion (€28.6 billion) in 2003 India and the EU are likely to resume discussions on bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in January, senior EU officials have said. The EU's new ambassador to India, Tomasz Kozlowski, had earlier said that negotiations will take place next month, and a date is being organised for the next India-EU summit, which will be held in the first half of the next year. “The new talks will essentially be a "stock-taking" exercise following up the initial moves made at the November G20 meeting in Turkey, where EU leaders ...
