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India UK Free Trade Agreement: There has been an obstruction in the free trade agreement between India and Britain. India has just stopped this talk, according to British media, Khalistan issue may be the reason.

The world's biggest economies have dropped a long-standing public endorsement of free trade at their first meeting with the US President Donald Trump's administration.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday stressed their commitment to free trade ahead of a G20 finance ministers' meeting set to be dominated by debate on protectionism.

The Prime Minister of United Kingdom Theresa May on Monday pitched for free trade and greater investment from India in UK.

BRICS nations are not "psychologically ready" to sign a free trade zone deal but may sign an agreement on more profound economic integration in the next 5 years, a top Russian minister said today ahead of a summit of leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Besides demanding significant duty cuts for exporting automobiles to India, EU wants tax reduction in wines/spirits and dairy products as well as a strong intellectual property regime (IPR) in the country.

Chinese authorities said Tuesday that a former top official of the country`s first free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai was under investigation for violating the law, following months of uncertainty about his fate.

The United States and European Union agreed on Friday to work "full throttle" to secure the world`s biggest-ever free trade deal despite growing scepticism on both sides of the Atlantic.

Business leaders pushing for frictionless free trade have something new to worry about: the potential break-up of the Internet, which today forms the backbone of the global economy.

Calling upon revenue intelligence agencies to enhance cooperation with their global counterparts to check tax evasion and smuggling, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said free trade should also mean fair trade.

Ministers from 12 countries will meet on the sidelines of APEC to discuss the TPP, a deal that falls outside of the summit`s agenda but aims to tackle the kind of market restrictions still seen in China`s economy.

Switzerland Wednesday expressed hope that negotiations along with three other countries on broad- based trade and economic partnership agreement with India would resume at the earliest.