6-Sep-2024
Business Standard
The Swiss government has submitted a free trade agreement with India to its parliament for ratification. The agreement aims to increase trade and investment between the two regions. However, it has faced public opposition due to concerns about environmental impacts and the protection of domestic industries.
2-May-2024
Peoples Dispatch
It is no coincidence that just five days before the amendments were announced, India signed a Free Trade Agreement with the European Free Trade Association.
4-Apr-2024
The Times of India
Switzerland pursues a new bilateral investment treaty with India post EFTA deal, addressing model treaty concerns.India remains reluctant on concessions, focusing on market.
8-Mar-2024
Financial Express
The EFTA that includes Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein will be encouraging $ 50 billion of investments by their companies in India in the first 10 years of the FTA coming into force.
22-Jan-2024
The Times of India
European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the four-nation trading bloc comprising Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, is close to signing a trade agreement with India.
17-Jan-2024
Financial Express
The discussions on the majority of policy areas in the free trade agreement (FTA) with the UK have either been closed or are in an advanced stage of negotiation.
9-Jan-2024
Business Standard
The report by economic think tank GTRI said the trade agreement in the current format will not help Indian exports and will result in higher imports and wider trade deficit.
19-Dec-2023
Hindustan Times
Switzerland has expressed concerns in the latest negotiations on provisions related to mobility of Indian professionals and intellectual property rights. The four members of EFTA – Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland – have pushed for finalisation of the proposed Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) so that it can be signed before India begins the process for conducting a general election in 2024
