About India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement:
- Sri Lanka’s exports added up to over 140 billion Lankan rupees under the agreement.
- Imports into Sri Lanka from India stood at 28 billion rupees.
- Trade with India contributed to almost 65 percent of the total trade of Sri Lanka under four existing free trade agreements.
- The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and Sri Lanka was the first-ever bilateral trade agreement for both countries, signed in 1998 and enforced in 2000.
- The pact is aimed at further boosting the economic ties between the two countries by liberalising trade norms.
Free Trade Agreement (FTA):
- FTA is an agreement between the countries or regional blocks to reduce or eliminate trade barriers, though mutual negotiations with a view to enhancing trade.
- It can however be comprehensive to include goods, services, investment, intellectual property, competition, government procurement and other areas.
- On goods, the key areas covered are customs duties or tariffs, rules of origins, non-tariff measures such as technical barriers to trade (TBT), sanitary phytosanitary (SPS) measures, trade remedies etc.
- On services, the negotiations are on barriers to various modes of supply including domestic regulations.
Trade agreements could be bilateral, plurilateral or multilateral.
- Bilateral trade agreements occur when two countries agree to unshackle trade restrictions to expand business opportunities.
- Plurilateral agreements occur between a large number of countries, either in the regional context or otherwise.
- Multilateral trade agreements is generally referred to for WTO negotiations since it covers a large number of countries and sets global trade rules.
Source : All India Radio
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