EU Maros Sefcovic’s Commerce Commissioner to visit India next month for ALE’s negotiations with Piyush Goyal. Key problems and deadlines discussed.
The official said that the visit was scheduled for the end of the 13th cycle of negotiations, which is scheduled from September 8 here.
As there is a deadline to conclude the negotiations by the end of this year, this series of talks is important.
“A little movement should be there in this series of talks,” said the manager, adding that the advice will be levied to ministers to solve the remaining problems because they may require a political call.
The 12th round of talks ended in Brussels.
In June 2022, India and the EU block of 27 countries resumed negotiations for a complete free trade agreement, an investment protection agreement and a pact on geographic indications (GIS) after a difference of more than eight years.
He stalled in 2013 due to differences on the market opening level.
On February 28, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of the European Commission agreed to conclude a highly anticipated free trade agreement by the end of this year.
In addition to requiring significant rights reductions in cars and medical devices, the EU wishes a tax reduction in products such as wine, spirits, meat, poultry and an intellectual property regime.
Exports of Indian products to the EU, such as ready -to -use clothing, pharmaceutical products, steel, petroleum products and electric machines, can become more competitive if the pact is successfully concluded.
Negotiations of the India-EU commercial commercial cover cover 23 political areas or chapters, in particular trade in goods, trade in services, investment, health and phytosanitary measures, technical obstacles to trade, commercial appeals, rules of origin, customs and trade facilitation, competition, commercial defense, the purchase of government, settlement of disputes, intellectual property rights, sustainable development.
The bilateral trade of India with the goods with the EU was 137.41 billion USD in 2023-24 (exports worth 75.92 billion USD and imports worth 61.48 billion USD), which makes them the largest trading partner for goods.
The EU market represents approximately 17% of the total exports of India, while EU exports to India represent 9% of its total shipments abroad.
In addition, the bilateral trade in services, in 2023, between India and the EU was estimated at 51.45 billion USD.
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