India, UK conclude 11th round of negotiations for proposed free trade agreement

25 Jul 2023 Evaluate

In an encouraging note, the commerce ministry has said that India and the UK have concluded the 11th round of negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA). India and the UK are working to iron out differences on issues like intellectual property rights (IPRs) and rules of origin under the agreement, negotiations for which were started in January 2021.

It said ‘On July 18, the UK and India concluded the eleventh round of talks for the UK-India FTA. Technical discussions were held across nine policy areas over 42 separate sessions. They included detailed draft treaty text discussions in these policy areas’. On July 10-11, 2023, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, Government of India, Piyush Goyal, visited the UK as part of the eleventh round of the UK-India FTA negotiations. He discussed ways to make progress on the FTA negotiations and wider trade and investment opportunities for the UK and India. 

Commerce Secretary, Government of India, Sunil Barthwal, also visited the UK during the round. He took stock of the progress made in the eleventh round of negotiations. The twelfth round of negotiations is due to take place in the coming months. Meanwhile, bilateral trade between the countries has increased to $20.36 billion in 2022-23 from $17.5 billion in 2021-22.

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