Tag: India


  • Delhi Quota Row

    India’s commerce ministry says the new trade agreement with the European Union shields more than 80 per cent of Indian steel exports from Brussels quotas and carbon rules, while industry warns the agreement’s own annex may cut guaranteed access in sixteen product categories NEW DELHI, 18 September 2026. India’s commerce ministry moved on Thursday to…

  • Trade Ice Melts

    India and China open first structured trade talks in years, targeting a 99 billion dollar deficit, tariff frictions and supply chain bottlenecks as Asia’s two giants test a commercial detente NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 India and China have formally begun discussions to address their long-festering bilateral trade grievances, including one of the world’s largest…

  • Auto Quota Pact

    India-EU free trade agreement draft text opens India’s car, wine and farm markets through carefully rationed tariff-rate quotas, resetting the terms of engagement between two of the world’s largest trading powers NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 India and the European Union have pulled back the curtain on the most consequential market-access bargain either side has…

  • BRICS Hits Back

    Eleven-nation bloc closes New Delhi summit with a 140-paragraph declaration condemning unilateral tariffs, doubling down on local-currency trade and setting a reform agenda for a fractured global trading system NEW DELHI, September 15, 2026 The BRICS group of emerging economies concluded its 18th summit in New Delhi on Saturday, September 13, with a unanimous, 140-paragraph…

  • India EU Pact

    India’s landmark free trade agreement with the European Union has entered its final approval stage in Brussels, setting up sweeping tariff cuts across autos, machinery, steel, textiles and pharmaceuticals. NEW DELHI, Sept. 14, 2026 India’s most consequential trade agreement in a generation moved decisively toward the finish line over the weekend, as the European Commission…

  • EU Scrap U-Turn

    Brussels abandons its planned 15 percent export duty on aluminium scrap after pressure linked to the India trade deal, leaving Europe’s smelters furious and forcing the bloc to reach for environmental waste rules instead. BRUSSELS, Sept. 14, 2026 The European Commission has abandoned its long-promised export duty on aluminium scrap, shelving a measure that Europe’s…

  • Steel on Trial

    India’s trade remedy authority hears arguments today on whether Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese stainless steel imports have injured domestic mills, the latest front in a widening campaign of anti-dumping actions. NEW DELHI, September 11, 2026 A Hearing at the Center of a Widening Trade Fight India’s Directorate General of Trade Remedies convenes an oral hearing…

  • India Deal Wait

    New Delhi says the trade agreement with Washington is negotiated and ready, but it will stay unsigned until the United States grants tariff terms better than India’s rivals receive NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, September 7, 2026 The long-promised bilateral trade agreement between the United States and India has arrived at a peculiar standstill: the deal is done,…

  • India Deal Snag

    New Delhi says the long-awaited US bilateral trade agreement will not be finalized until Washington offers Indian exporters a tariff rate better than their competitors get WASHINGTON and NEW DELHI, September 6, 2026 The final act of one of the Trump administration’s most consequential trade negotiations has stalled on a single word: preferential. India will…

  • EU Rice Duty Up

    Brussels raises the import tariff on husked rice by more than 40 percent under an automatic volume trigger, squeezing exporters from South Asia and South America and testing the margins of European rice millers BRUSSELS, September 8, 2026 The European Union has raised its import duty on husked rice from 30.00 euros to 42.50 euros…