Team leaves for Brussels to speed up FTA with EU

Seeking To Speed Up The Negotiations On The Free Trade Agreement With The European Union

- MUKESH JAGOTA

SEEKING TO SPEED up the negotiations on the free trade agreement with the European Union, a team of officials from the ministry of commerce left for Brussels late on Tuesday to take forward the process where it was left off last week.

The visit of the Indian team, led by the chief negotiator of the India-EU FTA comes within a week of the conclusion of the 11th round of negotiations on the agreement. The 11th round of negotiations were held in New Delhi and lasted from May 12 to May 16.

While both sides are working with a deadline of 2025-end for the conclusion of the negotiations, the possibility to have the agreement in two tranches is also being looked at by both sides.