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India, Oman set to sign trade agreement today
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|December 18, 2025
India and Oman are all set to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) today, Muscat's first FTA in about 17 years after it entered into a similar deal with the US, that will further strengthen bilateral strategic ties between the two nations with wider scope ranging from goods, services, investments, green energy and the net-zero.
Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal.
(PTI)
Jointly addressing the India-Oman Business Forum in Muscat on Wednesday with Oman's trade minister Qais Al Yousef, Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal said, strong ties between the two nations “have been instrumental in bringing us to this very, very memorable and fateful day tomorrow, when before our two leaders, Qais and Twill have the privilege of executing the first free trade agreement Oman is going to sign with a country after 17 long years.”
The US-Oman FTA came into force on January 1, 2009.
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