The commerce ministry has said that India and China have agreed to draw-up a medium and long term roadmap with action points and timelines in order to increase bilateral trade in a balanced and sustainable manner. It also pointed out that two neighbouring nations in Asia are the largest emerging economies of the world with 35 percent of the world's population and about 20 percent of the world's GDP, but bilateral trade between the two nations is less than 1 percent of global trade.
The minister stated that the Chinese side reaffirmed their commitment for accelerating the provision of market access for Indian agricultural products pertaining to non-basmati rice, rape-seed meals, soya-meals, pomegranate and pomegranate arils, okra, banana and other fruits and vegetables and bovine meat expeditiously. It also said that the neighbouring nation has noted India’s concern regarding the long existing trade imbalance and requests for market access of Indian products and services and expressed its commitment to address these concerns through the broad framework provided by successive joint economic group meetings.
It further said that the two sides reaffirmed their aim to promote bilateral trade in the field of pharmaceuticals including resolution of issues of Indian pharma products exports to Chinese markets. It further said that both the sides agreed to re-negotiate bilateral investment agreement to create a more stable, transparent and predictable legal environment to facilitate greater investment on both sides. Meanwhile, India has received $1.78 billion foreign direct investment from China during April 2000 and December 2017. India's trade deficit with China stood at $36.73 billion during the first seven months of the current fiscal (April-October).
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