Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: India and the UK will hold their next round of talks for the proposed free trade agreement in June here and both the sides are aiming to conclude the negotiations at the earliest.
Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Santosh Kumar Saranagi said on May 15 that trade negotiations are a matter of give and take and this has nothing to do with elections in individual countries. There will be general elections in India next year.
“The effort is to expedite the negotiations…(There was a) Diwali deadline (to conclude the talks last year) was given, but for variety of reasons, it was extended. But the effort on both sides is to conclude it at the earliest,” he told reporters.
The tenth round of negotiation is from June 5-9 and “hopefully we will make some substantial progress during that time,” he added.
The negotiations were launched on January 13, 2021. The talks cover 26 policy areas/chapters.
