ISDS Case Map
India
“India's enthusiasm for Free Trade Agreements, in the context of the current global crisis when countries are eschewing trade liberalisation and concentrating on reviving domestic economies and creating jobs, defies economic logic,” said K.N. Harilal of the Centre for Development Studies and member of the Kerala State Planning Board.
European Union ambassador to India Daniele Smadja on Friday said ongoing negotiations for the India-EU broad-based trade and investment agreement may not be concluded by April.
South Korea and India agreed Thursday to improve their free trade pact that went into effect early last year in a bid to further boost bilateral trade.
India and South African nations are expected to sign a trade agreement by the middle of this year, which aims at reducing tariffs on certain items traded between the nations, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said.
Hard lobbying by the European Union, home to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms like Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis and Roche, has struck a chord with India's Prime Minister's Office, which is now 'putting pressure' on a reluctant commerce and industry ministry to include a
contentious IPR chapter in the proposed India-EU trade and investment pact.
Draft consolidated version of the IPR text in preparation for IPR discussions during the week of 12th July 2010 in Delhi.
A draft of the IPR chapter of the EU-India FTA, made publicly available for
the first time, provides insight into
India's response in July 2010 to several EU proposals on intellectual
property protection and enforcement.
India and South Korea are set to expand a one-year-old bilateral trade pact at a time when India has concluded talks for a more ambitious agreement with Japan.
Presented to the EU-India Summit on 10 December 2010
Changing its strategy, India is aiming to enter comprehensive bilateral trade agreements with more individual members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, as a services agreement with the multilateral body remains elusive.
