ISDS Case Map
India
The signing of the India-UK free trade agreement is set to miss this year’s festival as negotiators are still working on contentious issues including chapters pertaining to rules of origin and intellectual property rights.
Peru expects to sign two free trade agreements (FTAs) with India and Hong Kong, for which it has been working actively so that talks can be concluded in 2024.
India is proposing reducing import taxes on some electric vehicles from the UK in an effort to clinch a free-trade deal between the two nations by the end of the year.
India, in ongoing talks on several free trade agreements, may push for clauses to ensure that steel products imported from the partner country are manufactured in that country rather than being routed through it.
After a delay of several months, India and the Gulf Co-operation Council have begun discussing the contours of a free trade agreement.
India and UK seem to have moved towards common ground on dispute settlement, which was the most controversial part of the bilateral investment treaty.
India and the UK don’t expect a free trade agreement to be announced until after state elections in the South Asian nation are completed in December.
An end of year deadline for a free trade deal between India and the European Union is unrealistic, the 27-nation grouping’s Ambassador to India, Hervé Delphin, said in an interview.
Full-throttle efforts are being made to ensure India-UK FTA and BIT, get finalised simultaneously.
A 1 billion ($1.2 billion) corner of the UK economy is fearing for its future as Britain and India close in on a long-awaited free-trade agreement.
