New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- In the past six years of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations, more than 100 stakeholders' consultations have been held by the Department of Commerce and other leading Ministries and Departments of the government.
The government sought industry inputs for formulating India's interests, covering a wide spectrum of the economy including agriculture, chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, textiles, ferrous and nonferrous metals, automobiles and machinery.
The RCEP is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ( Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thaila...