Govt holds extensive stakeholder consultations on FTAs to safeguard industry interests: Goyal

24 Jun 2025 Evaluate

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said the government holds extensive stakeholder consultations on the free trade agreements (FTAs) and is pursuing these pacts while keeping in mind the interests of the domestic industry. He said that India is keeping in mind both the offensive and defensive interests of industry while negotiating these agreements.

He said ‘We do all our FTAs after holding extensive stakeholder consultations and meetings. We address their (industries) concerns and needs’. He added that India is negotiating FTAs with those trading partners which do not compete with the country but rather complement its economy so that industry and people get benefitted from that. He further said ‘Going forward also, we will do FTAs which will keep in mind national and public interests’.

Recently, he had said India and the 27-nation EU bloc are ‘really very near’ to concluding talks for the proposed free trade agreement, with only a few issues left to be resolved. He said India and the European Union (EU) have both agreed to respect each other’s sensitivities so that they do not let the irritants hold back agreements.


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