India-UK enhanced trade partnership to be launched
February 08, 2021
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Goyal, Truss to set joint timelines for further advances on trade, investment issues
The India-UK Enhanced Trade Partnership (ETP), which could lead to a potential comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries, will be formally launched during the visit of the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to India later this year.
Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and his UK counterpart Elizabeth Truss, at their bilateral meeting in New Delhi last week, committed themselves to make concrete progress on trade and investment front to deliver quick gains for both countries and also set joint timelines for further advances, according to an official release circulated on Monday. The British PM’s planned visit to India to attend the Republic Day celebrations last month had to be put off due to fresh out-break of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country and the di