New Delhi, March 11 -- A former Indian trade official has used a cricketing analogy to downplay New Zealand's chances of achieving dairy market access gains from free trade talks with his country.
"A good exchange would be if India opens dairy but Kane Williamson starts playing cricket for India," said Abhijit Das, a former trade negotiator and head of the Centre for World Trade Organisation Studies at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi.
"India would find it very, very difficult to give market access in dairy," Das said from the sidelines of the recent meeting of WTO ministers in Abu Dhabi.
Thenew National-led government has given top priorityto getting negotiations stalled under its Labour predecessor back on track but h...