“The agreement text will be publicly released only after this phase is completed,” one of the officials said. “Both sides will review each chapter, and the FTA will not take immediate effect due to procedural formalities.” Legal vetting or ‘scrubbing’ is the final review of a trade agreement’s text to ensure legal clarity, consistency, and…
To be sure, progress on India’s FTA with the European Union has not been insubstantial. Both sides have committed themselves to signing it by the end of this calendar year. When it happens, it will be the world’s largest deal of its kind. A trade pact between both sides will not just strengthen our trade…
This would be an important development, as it would put us in a select group of countries such as the EU, UK, China, Indonesia, South Korea, Australia, etc. that have introduced similar schemes to reduce emissions. A CCTS is essentially an alternative to a carbon tax. The tax operates through prices, raising the cost of…
Although Indian officials are pushing for a similar negotiating arrangement with the UK, the British have not yet agreed to this request, the people cited above said. Negotiations on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)—which proposes taxing imports of carbon-intensive products such as iron and steel, cement, aluminium and fertilizer—were earlier kept out of the…
