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India
Australian trade minister Simon Crean is here to push a free trade agreement with India. Besides, he is talking to Australian companies in India to get an assessment of the barriers they face. In an interview, he also tells Sidhartha the new mining tax would not affect foreign investors looking at Australia. Edited excerpts:
Close economic cooperation between India and Asean can prove to be a potent force in shaping the economic fortunes of South and South-east Asia over the next decade. Standard & Poor's believes, however, that recent Indo-Asean increases in trade and investment flows still fall well short of their full potential.
India is not likely to entertain requests for opening government procurement in its FTA negotiations with EU and Japan respectively.
Australia Thursday said it had taken a major step towards a free trade agreement with India, with a study carried showing a bilateral deal would offer "significant economic benefits" to both sides.
A joint study finds that an Australia-India FTA will bring billions of dollars to both countries.
Letter to the Government of India about the impacts of FTAs on livestock keepers and traditional pastoral communities
India is facing strong pressure to open up its markets to cheese and other dairy produce from Europe, even though the New Delhi government has expressed fears about how small farmers could be forced into deeper poverty as a result.
The European Commission has said that the proposed FTA with India will not affect production of cheap life-saving medicines in the country as the two sides agreed that the IPR chapter will not go beyond TRIPS.
The Government of India came under attack from a coalition of groups representing farmers unions, trade unions, hawkers, public health and other civil society organisations on the ongoing, secret negotiations on a European Union–India Free Trade Agreement (EU-India FTA)
