An early signing of a free-trade agreement between India and the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected.
Meanwhile, two-way trade between India and Sri Lanka, which signed a bilateral free-trade agreement in 1999, is ballooning.
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Free-trade negotiations between India and Japan have dragged on for years, with no deal in sight.
The trade pact would involve slashing duties on over 90% of India-EU trade and open up mutual markets for services and investment, ET reported.
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What is the future that as far as thousands of jobs coming back from India to the U.S., as far as U.S.-India trade and economic relations?
And he has also said that if the Doha trade talks can't be restarted consideration should be given to a bilateral India-EU free-trade agreement.
No bilateral free-trade agreement exists, and India often flirts with slapping duties on Chinese imports, most recently of power equipment.
Sachdev, a spokesman for the left-leaning All India Trade Union Congress.
And for several big firms, trade with India has been marred by billion-pound tax rows and unpaid fees.
India has made efforts to improve ties, and this is reflected in better trade and people-to-people relations, Manmohan Singh told lawmakers in India's upper house of parliament.
Imports of the precious metal have been a major contributor to India's wide trade and current-account deficits.
The row could affect ongoing negotiations between India and the EU over a free-trade agreement.
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Besides, still-elevated consumer inflation and India's widening trade deficit could weaken the case for a rate cut in June.
In February U.S. Trade Representative Rob Kirk, in a complaint to the World Trade organization, said India's program discriminated against foreign-made solar equipment.
India and Pakistan have resumed cross-border trade in the Jammu region more than a fortnight after ties were suspended following military tensions in Kashmir.
BBC: India and Pakistan resume cross-border trade in Kashmir
India and Pakistan are resuming cross-border trade and travel in the Jammu region more than a fortnight after ties were suspended following military tensions in Kashmir.
BBC: India and Pakistan resume cross-border travel in Kashmir
One solution is to import generic drugs from countries such as India, which does a thriving trade in copy-cat pharmaceuticals because it is not yet obliged to recognise drug patents.
Pakistan is unpicking official barriers to trade, after last year offering most-favoured nation trading status to India (reciprocating India's 1996 offer).
Meanwhile, the fashionable idea that Asia's many hard-edged nationalisms had been softened by trade-weighted rationalism has been rudely knocked aside, not least by India's nuclear tests in May and the echoing booms from Pakistan.
India, which is certainly large and not considered especially trade-dependent, is also seeing the economy stumble.
The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, is holding talks in India with the aim to strengthen bilateral trade and nuclear co-operation.
Thailand recently signed a free-trade agreement with Australia, and is now negotiating similar pacts with America and India.
As India's global economic footprint grows, a marked rise in trade-related controversies in areas like labour standards, product safety and intellectual property seems all but inevitable.
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The central pillar of the policy was import substitution, the belief that India needed to rely on internal markets for development, not international trade - a belief generated by a mixture of socialism and the experience of colonial exploitation.
India's current-account deficit is driven mainly by a perennial trade gap.
Finally, regional trade between South and East Asia, which was always low, is growing - and mainly between India and China.
With that deadline looming, trade ministers from the "group of six"--Australia, Brazil, the EU, India, Japan and the U.S.--met last month in London.
"It will take at least two years for the mines to start operations, " said Basant Poddar, vice-president of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries, India's largest mineral trade body.
There has been sporadic violence in India at the beginning of a two-day strike called by the country's trade unions in protest against the government's economic reforms.
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