RCEP had not addressed Indian concerns
India is negotiating 23 trade agreements with partner countries, having pulled out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on 13 Mar 2020.
The RCEP Guiding Principles had not addressed the outstanding issues and concerns of India.
He listed the trade negotiations with the partner countries:
1 India – EU (European Union) Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreements (BTIA)
2 India – Sri Lanka Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreements (ETCA)
3 India – Thailand Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA)
4 India – Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA)
5 India – EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA)
6 India – New Zealand FTA/CECA
7 India – Israel Trade Agreement
8 India – Singapore CECA (3rd review)
9 India – SACU PTA (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia)
10 India – Mercosur PTA expansion (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay)
11 BIMSTEC CECA (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal)
12 India – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Framework Agreement
13 India – Canada FTA
14 India – Australia CECA
15 India-Malaysia CECA (1st Review)
16 India-ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (1st Review)
17 India-Korea CEPA review
18 India-Iran Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA)
19 India-Peru Trade Agreement
20 India-EAEU (Eurasian Economic Union) Technical Consultations
21 India-Bangladesh CEPA
22 India-Chile PTA (2nd expansion)
23 India-Indonesia CECA
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