Submitted by TheIndiaStreet on July 15, 2008 - 11:41pm.
by: Bharat Ratna
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* India and Sri Lanka are going to sign the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) at the time SAARC summit on August 1, 2008.
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* Twelve rounds of technical-level negotiations have been held on CEPA starting February 2005
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* Mr Gopal K. Pillai, Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and industry said that Free Trade Agreement (signed in 1999) is a win-win situation to both countries. We are really looking at increasing Sri Lanka’s trade volume to 1.5 billion dollars by 2012
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* The CEPA deal will make it easier for Sri Lankan companies to invest in India in areas like tourism, telecommunications and information technology, they told a seminar on the trade deal.
Submitted by TheIndiaStreet on June 8, 2007 - 3:36am.
By Vipin Agnihotri
It has come into the notice of The India Street that the contours of a support package for exporters are getting clearer with the Indian finance ministry working on increasing the duty drawback rates to assist textiles exporters cover a part of the damage because of the appreciation of the rupee.
