UK & India conclude 11th round of FTA talks

27 Jul '23

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UK member of parliament Nigel Huddleston (centre) with the chief negotiators at the UK-India FTA talks. Pic: Twitter/@HuddlestonNigel

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India and the UK have concluded their 11th round of UK-India FTA discussions.
Union minister Piyush Goyal visited the UK, meeting UK politicians including Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Huddleston, to discuss the FTA and broader investment opportunities.
The talks comprised 42 sessions across 9 policy areas; the 12th round is expected in the near future.

India and the UK recently concluded the eleventh round of talks for the UK-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA). As with previous rounds, this round was conducted in a hybrid fashion—a number of Indian officials travelled to London for negotiations and others attended virtually.

On July 10-11, 2023, Piyush Goyal, Indian minister for commerce and industry, consumer affairs, food and public distribution, and textiles, visited the UK as part of the eleventh round of the UK-India FTA negotiations. He met with member of parliament Kemi Badenoch, the secretary of state for business and trade, and member of parliament Nigel Huddleston, the minister of state for international trade, where they discussed ways to make progress on the FTA negotiations and wider trade and investment opportunities for the UK and India, India’s ministry of commerce and industry and the UK’s department for business and trade said in a joint statement.

India’s commerce secretary Sunil Barthwal also visited the UK during the round. He met with senior UK trade officials and took stock of the progress made in the eleventh round of negotiations.

Technical discussions were held across nine policy areas over 42 separate sessions. They included detailed draft treaty text discussions in these policy areas.

The twelfth round of negotiations is due to take place in the coming months.

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