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India, Chile announce start of negotiations for comprehensive trade pact
PM Modi described Chile as India’s “valued friend and partner country” in Latin America and said there is untapped potential in trade and investment
Published on Apr 01, 2025 09:02 PM IST
India plans to scrap digital ad tax to ease concerns of Google, Meta, Amazon
The government proposes to abolish the 6% equalisation levy on online services, including advertising, as part of amendments to the Finance Bill 2025.
Published on Mar 25, 2025 03:30 PM IST
Reuters |
India, New Zealand back free, open and secure Indo-Pacific: PM Modi
The New Zealand PM said he reiterated our strong commitment to address shared concerns over our respective interests in contributing to Indo-Pacific.
Updated on Mar 17, 2025 02:48 PM IST
Canada minister says trade talks with India may be re-established
Six months after negotiations over an early harvest trade pact between India and Canada were paused, there is no timeline for their resumption but high level contact may be re-established this week at the World Trade Organisation ministerial.
Published on Feb 26, 2024 11:29 AM IST
Anirudh Bhattacharyya, Toronto
India and Canada on the global chessboard
Trudeau may have rolled the dice but India will now have a big role in determining how it falls.
Published on Sep 25, 2023 11:22 PM IST
India, Australia may strike interim trade pact in March
The two partners detailed the areas that would be covered under the early harvest trade deal. The broad areas include goods, services, investment, energy, logistics, standards, rules of origin, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures.
Updated on Feb 12, 2022 01:18 AM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
India, UAE finalise trade pact, await nod for signing: UAE envoy
The UAE was India’s third largest trade partner for the eighth consecutive year in 2020-21, and bilateral non-oil trade has grown from $185 million in 1985 to more than $43 billion in 2020-21
Updated on Feb 11, 2022 05:34 AM IST
‘If even a tiny Phase 1 deal is not done...’: US on trade pact during Trump visit
A trade deal was seen as the chief goal for the trip when the two sides began planning the presidential trip.
Updated on Feb 14, 2020 01:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Government to review free trade pacts with Asean countries
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Goyal cited growing trade deficit with ASEAN countries during 2010-11 until 2018-19 to state that the earlier trade pacts had been asymmetrical.
Published on Dec 11, 2019 06:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
World’s biggest trade pact RCEP on course despite India’s concerns: Thailand
Spurred in part by the U.S.-China trade war, Southeast Asian countries hoped to announce at least provisional agreement on the China-backed 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on Monday.
Updated on Nov 04, 2019 10:51 AM IST
Bangkok | Reuters
Angela Merkel renews push for India-EU free trade pact
A free trade pact with India has been a long-pending demand from Germany, India’s largest trading partner in Europe. The pact has been in discussion for years.
Updated on Nov 03, 2019 02:58 AM IST
New Delhi | Reuters
Global or local: India’s dilemma on the RCEP
Delhi will have to sign the trade pact but must zealously guard its interests
Updated on Oct 08, 2019 06:59 PM IST
China calls for free trade pact with India to fast track business ties
China, he said, had never pursued a trade surplus and the trade imbalance with India was “largely the result of differences in their industrial structures.
Updated on Sep 24, 2019 11:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Rezaul H Laskar