Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA):

GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.   Context: India and the European Union (EU) are set to resume negotiations for a Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) by December.   Challenges ahead: Negotiators are still “quite far apart” due to what Europe perceives as …

Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA)

Topics Covered: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) At the upcoming Virtual “EU- India Summit”, Leaders expected to give a kickstart to negotiations on the Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) as the EU-India FTA is known, which have failed to be resumed …