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Over a period of five years, India and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) negotiated a bilateral free trade agreement — with plenty of difficulty.
Under their initial bilateral framework agreement, signed in Bali on 8 October 2003, the India-ASEAN FTA for goods was supposed to be finalised by 30 June 2005. Negotiations on services would start in 2005 and end in 2007. After a year’s delay, discussions ground to a halt in June 2006 when India released its ’negative list’ of items to be excluded from tariff reductions — with 900 products, both industrial and agricultural, figuring on the list. (This was down from India’s initial negative list of 1,410 items.) India’s agriculture ministry, in particular, was arguing hard to exclude commodities like rubber, pepper, tea, coffee and palm oil from the deal. Rules of origin have been the other thorny issue. Two months later, in August 2006, Delhi issued a revised list, pruned down to 560 items. However, tremendous fears about the impacts of the India-ASEAN FTA on farmers continued to rattle the discussion. By early 2007, in the midst of the new biofuels boom, palm oil became a central blockage point as Indonesia and Malaysia, both top palm oil exporters, struggled to get India to lower its tariffs. On 28 August 2008, a deal was finally concluded. The agreement was signed in 2009 and took effect (trade in goods) with 5 of the countries and India in January 2010, (Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Myanmar and Thailand). India is pushing – without much apparent process – for a services liberalization deal with the ASEAN countries. last update: May 2012 Articles
Process to sign FTA with ASEAN completed: Salman Khurshid
| 6-March-2014
India has completed the internal process for signing the much-waited free trade agreement in services and investments with ASEAN which is set to significantly boost its economic engagement with the 10-nation grouping. 
India is considering withdrawing some products from the Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand after facing a huge trade deficit, with gold likely to be excluded from the pact. 
The idea of a Mekong-India Economic Corridor — a network of land and sea infrastructure connecting India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam — is gaining traction with the upcoming signing of the India-ASEAN services and investment deal. 
Indian companies have been unable to capitalise on potential benefits arising out of the free trade agreement on "goods" between India and ASEAN, industry lobby Ficci has found.
India-ASEAN trade pact on services by year-end
| 7-October-2013
India and the 10-nation ASEAN are set to formally sign a free trade agreement on services and investments by the end of 2013 and implement the ambitious agreement by July 2014, a top official said Monday.
India-Thailand free trade agreement talks move ahead
| 9-September-2013
Thailand has indicated softening of stance on some of the issues in the freetrade agreement it is negotiating with India, bringing the pact closer to reality after more than 10 years of talks. 
Issues related to movement of professionals under mode 4 and mutual recognition of qualification in medical and education are said to be the main roadblocks.
En Tailandia primer ministro indio para negociar TLC
| 30-May-2013
El primer ministro indio, Manmohan Singh, arribó hoy a esta capital para perfilar con su par tailandesa, Yingluck Shinawatra, los términos de un acuerdo de libre comercio y de una asociación estratégica bilateral.
India’s firmer eastward gaze
| 22-January-2013
India’s free trade agreement (FTA) with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( Asean), which kicked off for trade in goods from 2010, is an important building block of its Look East policy, and its efforts to integrate with a wider pan-Asian economic community encompassing China, Japan and Korea. 0 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | ... | 180 | archives |
EU-secretdeals.info - new website reveals texts from Europe’s US and Canadian trade negotiations (TTIP, CETA)
| 7-Mar-2014
Sign the petition to candidates running in the 2014 European elections: Stop the TTIP and CETA!
| 6-Mar-2014
New report: No fracking way How the EU-US trade deal risks expanding fracking in Europe and the US
| 6-Mar-2014
AFL-CIO, more than 40 other organizations call for public consultations on investor rights in trade deals
| 3-Mar-2014
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