The main heads of delegation of the EU should visit India to accelerate the negotiation process of the India-EU FTA as prices imposed by US President Donald Trump rackens global economies
Two main European Union negotiators are heading for India while Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the EU aim to accelerate talks on the free trade agreement (ALE) in the midst of the imminent rates imposed by US President Donald Trump on India. According to The Indian Express, The European Commissioner for Trade, Maros Sefcovic, and the commissioner for agriculture, Christophe Hansen, will arrive in Delhi this week to organize negotiations with India.
The two European delegations visited the country in February of this year when the College of Commissioners went to India. It is relevant to note that the two EU commissioners are equivalent to the ministers of the cabinet. They will lead a negotiation team of 30 members of Brussels and will meet the Minister of Commerce Piyush Goyal and the Minister of Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
According to The Indian Express, The visit aims to accelerate negotiations to conclude the final agreement. The talks between the two parties took a significant momentum in the light of chaos price unleashed by the administration of the American president Donald Trump. The next series of conferences also arrives at a time when the EU-US agreement has already been announced.
The EU-US agreement also opens the door of India
In the trade agreement signed between the EU and the United States, the first indicated flexibilities for the United States on the controversial carbon borders (CBAM) adjustment mechanism. Consequently, officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that Delhi would now put pressure for similar concessions, because the EU had previously adopted a rigid approach on CBAM in negotiations with India.
Although the EU delegation argued that the CBAM regulations are not part of the Indian-EU FTA, negotiations on this subject are crucial because the Indian industry began to deal with the impact of the regulation which must enter into force on January 1, 2026.
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the president of the EU Ursula von der Leyen commission held a telephone call and discussed “the early conclusion of the India FTA”. Sources close to the question have been told The Indian Express Whether the two parties must negotiate around 26 or 27 chapters in all – each attacking different questions and themes – within the framework of the trade agreement. Of these 27 chapters, the two parties concluded negotiations out of 11 of them.
Therefore, it will be interesting to see the result of the last visit to the EU delegation.
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