ISDS Case Map
India
Malaysia and India have agreed to undertake a joint feasibility study on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which includes the possibility of having Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
The visiting Chilean president will sign a framework free trade agreement with India.
Korea has expressed interest in investing in infrastructure development in India and the two countries might also sign a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement to boost bilateral trade.
Japan and India agreed Thursday to conclude in one year the ongoing dialogue on economic cooperation, which involves the possibility of signing a free trade agreement, Japan's trade minister Shoichi Nakagawa said.
The government will not move ahead with trade negotiations with any party before the South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta) gets implemented on January 1, 2006.
The ink has hardly dried on the recently-notified revised tax treaty with Malaysia, but India is set to renegotiate it -- mainly to prevent 'treaty shopping'.
Malaysian PM Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmed Badawi on Monday underlined the need to strengthen India-Malaysia economic and trade co-operation through a free-trade agreement (FTA).
A report on the status of FTA fever in 12 Asian countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
Free trade agreements are flying around East Asia these days, with even India, from South Asia, getting a piece of the action.
The recently signed India-Thailand FTA has stirred a hornet's nest in India. It is being argued that India has shown unnecessary haste in signing the agreement without fully comprehending its economic implications for Indian industry.
