{"id":256939,"date":"2023-08-22T20:11:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=256939"},"modified":"2023-08-22T20:11:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:41:51","slug":"india-asean-agree-to-review-goods-trade-pact-by-2025-to-fix-asymmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-asean-agree-to-review-goods-trade-pact-by-2025-to-fix-asymmetry\/","title":{"rendered":"India, ASEAN agree to review goods trade pact by 2025 to fix \u2018asymmetry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cIndia, ASEAN agree to review goods trade pact by 2025 to fix asymmetry\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 22nd August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) have agreed to conclude the review of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement(AITIGA)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement is a trade deal signed in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agreement covers trade in physical goods and products. It does not apply to trade in services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ASEAN and India signed a separate ASEAN-India Trade in Services Agreement in 2014.Along with ASEAN-India Investment Agreement, the three agreements collectively form the ASEAN-India Free Trade Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why is there a need to review the <\/b><b>ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement(AITIGA)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Trade Deficit:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022-23, India\u2019s exports to ASEAN increased to $44 billion from $42.32 billion in 2021-22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 However, imports grew faster as it jumped to $87.57 billion in 2022-23 against $68 billion a year ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The trade deficit widened to $43.57 billion in the last financial year, from $25.76 billion in 2021-22. It was just $5 billion in 2010-11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 In this context, India\u2019s Commerce and Industry minister had said the trade agreement with ASEAN was an \u201cill-conceived\u201d agreement and unfair to the Indian industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Other concerns of India: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has been worried about the routing of goods from third countries in India through ASEAN countries members by taking the duty advantages of the agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia, ASEAN agree to review goods trade pact by 2025 to fix asymmetry\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 22nd August 2023. What is the News? India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) have agreed to conclude the review of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement(AITIGA) by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-asean-agree-to-review-goods-trade-pact-by-2025-to-fix-asymmetry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India, ASEAN agree to review goods trade pact by 2025 to fix \u2018asymmetry\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-256939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":8,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698366209},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}