It’s the season for trade negotiations and deals, going by the pace and number of deals struck over the last fortnight alone. After the India-UK trade deal that was announced on 6 May, we had the US-UK pact and then an interim one between China and America. With a little luck, we are likely to…
High-school physics textbooks tell us that the gravitational pull between two objects is determined by three factors—the weight of the two objects, the distance between them and a universal gravitational constant. The gravitational force is directly proportional to the mass of each object, while it is inversely proportional to the distance between them. This idea…
Since its adoption in 2015, India has signed agreements with only five countries—Belarus (2018), Kyrgyzstan (2019), Brazil (2020), the UAE (2024) and Uzbekistan (2024), highlighting challenges in securing BITs with key trade partners and attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Annual FDI inflows have only marginally increased from $60.2 billion in 2016-17 to $70.9 billion…
How are these disruptions likely to affect India? Three disruptive moves in particular need to be taken into consideration in this regard—on immigration, trade and tariff policy, and foreign policy. Also Read: Harsh Pant: Trump’s foreign policy recast poses a challenge that India cannot avoid Attacking immigration was Trump’s first major move. He had harped…
If this golden rule is applied across the board, we will not have faced an embarrassment with the Swiss government over their withdrawal of our most favoured nation (MFN) status, because of our negligence. In October 2023, the Indian Supreme Court (SC) had decided in the Nestle matter that MFN treatment under India’s double tax…
