This Report focuses on the implications of India’s expanding economic relations with the European Union (EU), the most important economic bloc for India in terms of trade and investment. In 2022 India and the EU, as strategic partners, declared their intent to strengthen their economic partnership and strategic cooperation by reviving their suspended negotiations on economic partnership after a nine-years lag. The revived negotiations will include three separate agreements in the areas of trade (Free Trade Agreement – FTA), investment protection (Investment Protection Agreement – IPA), and geographic indications (GI – a form of intellectual property used as a sign on products that have a specific geographical origin and specific qualities).
US-India Strategic Partnership Forum