ISDS Case Map
India
India's Commerce and Industry Ministry said yesterday free trade talks with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were still on and officials from both sides were likely to submit fresh proposals soon.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has suspended free-trade talks with India because of New Delhi's reluctance to open its markets, Malaysia's trade and industry minister said on Tuesday.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has suspended free-trade talks with India because of New Delhi's reluctance to open its markets, Malaysia's trade and industry minister said on Tuesday.
India is considering economic cooperation agreements with the European Union and Japan to boost trade, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday, a day after global free trade talks collapsed.
Links to India's trade agreements
A CECA with EU may look like an alphabet soup, but would spell a whole new range of opportunities for Indian enterprises and professionals. High on its success with the comprehensive economic co-operation agreement (CECA) with Singapore, the government is now planning a similar deal with the 25-member European Union.
The standoff between India and the Asean over the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has started rubbing over to India's bilateral relations with individual Asean members.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, agreed Monday that Japan and India will begin work to enter negotiations to conclude a free trade agreement between them.
Unhappy over Pakistan's decision to limit trade with it to a few items under the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), India on Tuesday said such a move would make the agreement meaningless and sought an "urgent" meeting of the SAARC Commerce Ministers to discuss the issue, an Indian newspaper reported.
India and France have agreed to strengthen cooperation in the area of intellectual property rights (IPR) and will soon sign a bilateral agreement regarding the same.
