It’s India’s 3rd FTA with a Five-Eyes alliance member in the last 4 years. It is also the 3rd trade deal announced by New Delhi this year, after agreements with the UK & Oman.
PM Modi & Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal are expected to visit Muscat next week for signing of FTA. Trip coincides with discussions on India purchasing spare parts for its Jaguar fleet.
The (Amendment of Provisions) Bill aims to decriminalise and rationalise certain offences to promote trust-based governance and improve ease of living and doing business.
Speaking at the Global Technology Summit, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry Piyush Goyal also hit out at the European Union’s climate protection regulations, calling them 'irrational'.
In San Francisco, the Union minister of commerce met his foreign counterparts to discuss investment opportunities in India & attended ministerial-level talks on clean & fair economy.
IPEF is a grouping of 14 countries that together make up more than 40 per cent of global GDP. Proposed agreement aims to make supply chains more resilient, efficient, and transparent.
The concern is not that 2025’s rally was irrational, but that it may be difficult to repeat. Outlooks remain anchored to AI investment and growth without reigniting inflation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
New Zealand is a small country compared to a market of our size. We don’t really gain much but they gain so much from it and they think it’s unfair ?
Our market size continues to grow while they have peaked out. Farmers in our country can’t be screwed without getting necessary reforms in place.