The Minister for Commerce and Industry of India Piyush Goyal, and UK Secretary of State for International Trade, Elizabeth Truss MP, met on Saturday, 6th February 2021, at New Delhi to discuss the India UK trade and investment relationship. They were joined by the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry from India, Hardeep Singh Puri.
Discussions were carried out on the entire range of bilateral trade and economic relations in a spirit of mutual understanding of each other’s priorities and trade sensitivities. Both Ministers reiterated their commitment to long term India-UK partnership and agreed to deepen trade cooperation between the two countries through an Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP). They also reviewed progress in removing market access barriers on both sides and ongoing cooperation in response to COVID-19.
Taking forward their commitment from the 14th JETCO on 24th July 2020, India and UK Trade Ministers reviewed the ongoing engagements between the two sides for an ETP, as part of the development of a roadmap a potential including that would lead to comprehensive FTA, considerations on an Interim Agreement on preferential basis.
In a significant step forward, the Ministers agreed that this partnership would formally be launched during the visit of the UK Prime Minister to India, later this year. To this effect, the Ministers committed themselves to make concrete progress on trade & investment front to deliver quick gains for both countries including joint timelines for further advances.
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