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The fourth round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with Australia took place between Monday 22 February and Friday 5 March.

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United Kingdom: Impact of the EU-UK Trade Cooperation Agreement and Northern Ireland Protocol on life sciences Following four and a half years of often acrimonious negotiations and numerous build ups to a no-deal situation, the EU-UK TCA represents a positive step. While the deal is relatively thin and offers only discrete regulatory reciprocity, overall the TCA is a welcome development in the face of apparent near- political failure to agree on a way forward between the two sides. The life sci...

India Signs Trade Agreement With Mauritius During External Affairs Minister S Jaishankars Visit India and Mauritius signed the CECPA on Monday (Pic Via Twitter) India and Mauritius have signed a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) that provides an institutional mechanism to encourage and improve trade between the two countries. India decided to change its trading relationship with Mauritius after it found that the earlier double taxation avoidance (DTA) treaty w...

India and Mauritius have signed a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement CECPA that provides an institutional mechanism to encourage and improve trade between the two countries

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) with Mauritius, providing an institutional mechanism to encourage and improve trade between the two countries.  The decision is part of the preparatory work for External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s upcoming visit to Mauritius. The India-Mauritius CECPA will be the first trade agreement to be signed by India with a country in Africa. The pact is a limited agreeme...

In such agreements, the two trading partners cut or eliminate duties on a host of products besides liberalising norms to promote services trade.  

18 February 2021 Over the course of this round, negotiators carried out over 40 sessions across the Free Trade Agreement. Twenty-five new texts were exchanged before the round – building on the 35 texts shared prior to the second round – allowing for more detailed discussions. Good progress was made building on the constructive relationship established in the first two rounds. Discussions were pragmatic and identified considerable areas of convergence. Negotiators on both sides continued to...

New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): The Union Cabinet has approved signing of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) between India and Mauritius.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has approved signing of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) between India and Mauritius. The India-Mauritius CECPA will be the first trade Agreement to be signed by India with a country in Africa. The Agreement is a limited agreement, which will cover Trade in Goods, Rules of Origin, Trade in Services, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, Dispute Settleme...