India's steel industry faces disadvantages due to FTAs with Japan and South Korea despite being the most cost competitive among major global steel producers. It is important for the government to rene...
From a 'sum-of-parts' approach IBT looks at non-ASEAN RCEP countries that India can intensify engagement with as it chooses to stay out of the agreement....
India's concerns on possible rise in trade deficit with RCEP participation are understandable, but it should actively consider other ways of engaging with value chains of East and Southeast Asia, besi...
Prof Manoj Pant, Director, IIFT, opines that global trade has changed a lot, even though we’re still negotiating multilateral agreements based on dated trade patterns. Now companies are major actors...
Rules of origin are specific provisions designed to establish origin of good. They are important as duties & restrictions may depend upon source of imports....
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines a free trade area as “a grouping of countries within which tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers between the members are gen...
Strengthening India's backward linkages in global value chains is critical to improve domestic value addition, especially in high end manufactured products. Similarly, India's forward integration is w...
There are three trade related impediments to an upsurge in India- ASEAN trade ties- inadequate infrastructure, no regional transit trade and consequently, high trade costs (especially transport costs)...
