ISDS Case Map
India
In what is being described as a success for India and a "failure and punishment for Pakistan" on the economic diplomacy front, India has formed a regional trading bloc excluding Islamabad, and including all the SAFTA members, besides Thailand.
In a country where oil diplomacy usually relates to petroleum resources, the year 2006 must have come as a lesson for top trade and foreign policy makers.
The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on Thursday that Under-Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon Dudas and Ajay Dua, secretary of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry (IMCI), recently signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Bilateral Cooperation between the United States and India on intellectual property issues.
India has decided to hand over a virtual blank cheque to Nepal as it prepares to start talks for extending the trade treaty between the two countries.
The India-Japan EPA/CEPA should cover, but may not be limited to trade in goods, trade in services, measures for trade promotion, facilitation and liberalisation of investment flows, measures for promoting economic cooperation in identified sectors and other areas for a comprehensive economic partnership between India and Japan.
The leaders of Japan and India agreed Friday to start talks on forging a bilateral free-trade agreement within two years and to increase cooperation between the two countries' navies and coast guards.
An influential Republican senator has asked President George Bush to negotiate a full scale free trade agreement with India following the successful conclusion of the India-US civil nuclear deal.
The Gulf nations and Japan are the next in line for free trade agreements (FTAs) with India.
"Earlier, Japan wanted agriculture to be kept out of EPA but now it has agreed to include it. With this sticky issue having been resolved negotiations will now be launched," official sources said.
