FTA, India’s first bilateral trade deal with a Western nation, will see tariffs on whisky-gin from UK halved to 75 percent. Automobile tariffs will be cut to 10 percent with a quota.
EAM Jaishankar is on a tour of the UK and Ireland, where he will give momentum to a £41 billion trade partnership. Despite the progress, skepticism lingers in India-UK relations.
UK-India Partnership on AI, semiconductors & quantum computing also among 10 recommendations set out by the strategic advisory and policy advocacy organisation Thursday.
19 of 26 chapters in trade talks closed, but issues like informal labour, liquor tariffs & migration policies to be resolved. PM Modi & UK PM Rishi Sunak agreed to 'work at pace' towards FTA.
A consultant who is part of India-UK FTA talks says neither side has received any guidelines that trade talks have been halted on account of Khalistan issue.
India hopes to finalise trade agreement by March 2023 as earlier deadline passes. In an interview with ThePrint, UKIBC MD Kevin McCole says UK won't 'compromise quality for speed'.
Mark Tully witnessed the BBC turn into an anti-India outfit and repeatedly shame and humiliate itself in world circles. Never mind. Tully lives on, and his old BBC lives on.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
New defence strategy marks clear break from Biden-era Pentagon policy, softening tone on China & Russia, while pushing allies to shoulder more responsibility with less US backing.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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