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India’s Rising Trade Imbalance

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) refer to the cooperation between at least two countries to reduce trade barriers like import quotas and tariffs to increase trade of goods and services with each other. How does FTA’s work? The free-trade agreement aims at reducing barriers to exchange so that trade can grow as a result of specialisation, division of labour, and most importantly ..

Topics: International Relations • International Trade • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership • Trade agreement • Trade barrier • Trade blocs

33rd ASEAN summit 2018 started in Singapore

The 33rd edition of ASEAN summit 2018 has started in the city-state of Singapore on November 11 with theme ‘Resilient and innovative Asean’. The main event is being held at Suntec Singapore Convention Centre, wherein the ten ASEAN members will be discussing key issues on economic, security and cultural cooperation. The summit is being chaired ..

Category: Summits and Conferences

Topics: 2018 ASEAN Summits • ASEAN Summit • Association of Southeast Asian Nations • Diplomatic conferences • East Asia Summit • International Relations • Organizations associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership • Third East Asia Summit

CR Chaudhary led Indian delegation at 6th RCEP Inter-sessional Ministerial Meeting

The 6th RCEP Inter-sessional Ministerial Meeting (IMM) was held in Singapore on 12-13 October, 2018. The Ministers from 16 RCEP countries discussed modern, comprehensive and mutually beneficial economic partnership agreement among ASEAN and ASEAN’s FTA partners. The Indian delegation was led by CR Chaudhary, the Minister of State for Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, ..

Topics: ASEAN Free Trade Area • Asia • Asia-Pacific • Association of Southeast Asian Nations • Continents • RCEP • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership • Trade blocs • World

Suresh Prabhu leads Indian delegation for 6th RCEP Trade Ministers’ Meeting 2018

The 6th edition of RCEP Trade Ministers’ Meeting 2018 has started in Singapore on August 30, which consists of 10 ASEAN countries and six ASEAN FTA partners namely, India, China, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. In it, the Indian delegation is led by Suresh Prabhu, the Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil ..

Topics: Asia • Association of Southeast Asian Nations • Continents • Organizations associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership • Southeast Asia • Trade blocs

Union Government constitutes Group of Ministers (GoM) to look into issues related to the proposed mega free trade agreement Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

The Union government has constituted a 4-member Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Prabhu, to look into issues related to the proposed mega free trade agreement Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The GoM will deliberate upon the issues being raised by the industry as well as government ..

Topics: Asia-Pacific • Association of Southeast Asian Nations • Finance Ministers of India • Government of India • Ministry of Commerce and Industry • Narendra Modi ministry • Nirmala Sitharaman • Piyush Goyal • Railway Ministers of India • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership • Suresh Prabhu • Trade blocs

India hosted 19th RCEP Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) meeting

The 19th round of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) meetings and other related meetings were held from 17 to 28 July 2017 in Hyderabad, India. RCEP is a proposed comprehensive regional economic integration agreement amongst the 10-ASEAN countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) ..

Topics: Asia • Asia-Pacific • Continents • International Trade • Ram Upendra Das • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership • Trade blocs