Developing countries have plunged headlong into a complex web of hundreds of bilateral and regional trade agreements based on the same trade and investment liberalization agenda that they find deeply problematic at the WTO platform. India is a new comer to the FTA (Free Trade Agreement) game. Over 25 such agreements are either being implemented or at various stages of negotiation by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. This update is an attempt at mapping India’s contribution to the various FTA spaghetti strings that are criss-crossing Asia as well as other parts of the world. We have listed all the agreements India is engaged in with a short note on the state of play and provided more detail on six key FTAs.
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