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Israel-India FTA plan gains momentum
Financial Express Mumbai
|January 01, 2026
Second round negotiations for India-EAEU FTA in February
A TEAM OF officials from Israel would be visiting India in January for discussions before the launch of the official rounds of negotiations on their proposed free trade agreement, officials said.
"The issues related to structuring of the negotiations are expected to dominate the discussions," they said. India and Israel signed the terms of reference (ToR) of their free trade agreement on November 20 to grow their bilateral trade tenfold in the next decade.
This story is from the January 01, 2026 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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