{"id":228754,"date":"2023-07-13T10:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=228754"},"modified":"2023-07-13T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:44:24","slug":"india-britain-make-progress-in-free-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=228754","title":{"rendered":"India, Britain make progress in free trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, July 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; India and Britain have made progress on crucial issues in their negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal held talks with British Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch during a visit to London on&nbsp;July 10 to 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The ministers identified and focused on low-hanging fruits, which included the closure of several chapters in the negotiations. This pragmatic approach aimed at resolving issues where negotiators had encountered challenges,&#8221; India&#8217;s Commerce Ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The visit proved to be critical in overcoming crucial obstacles and charting a path forward towards an ambitious and mutually beneficial trade deal,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goyal also had a meeting with Douglas McNeill, the chief economic advisor to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 11th round of FTA negotiations between the two countries will end on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, July 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; India and Britain have made progress on crucial issues in their negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal held talks with British Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch during a visit to London on&nbsp;July 10 to 12. &#8220;The ministers identified and focused on low-hanging fruits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228755,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228754\/revisions\/228755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}