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Budget wish list: Electronics and tech industry urges FM to raise MEIS rate

Sector players say Commerce ministry move to halve MEIS to 2% goes against national goal to export 100 million handsets worth $110 billion every year by 2025

India needs to outflank China in Africa: Exim Bank CEO Rasquinha

Adding that exporters needed to outflank the Chinese and not fight them, Rasquinha said exporters need to tie up with Japanese companies

Industrial output shrinks 3.8% in October, 3rd straight month of fall

October capital goods output down for ninth month

Lack of bilateral pacts may hamper India's trade, investment positions

After unilaterally terminating pacts in 2016, India has pushed for individual deals based on Bilateral Investment Treaty

Joining RCEP would have hurt India's interests, says Piyush Goyal

Being the basic framework of the RCEP deal, the FTA with the 10-nation grouping came into effect in 2010

State-owned banks to help small businesses with loans in month-long drive

Banks will also consider requests from MSMEs for restructuring their stressed standard assets

WTO top court for trade disputes to lapse for the first time on Dec 10

A meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) last week was the last chance for nations to break the more than two-year-long deadlock but saw both sides dig into their positions, sources said

Australian ex-PM Tony Abbott calls for bilateral free trade pact with India

To focus on the RCEP, India had earlier decided to hold off talks on bilateral FTAs with both the nations

Breather for telcos: 2-year moratorium on payment of spectrum dues

This comes soon after all three private telecom operators announced they were raising mobile phone tariff

Trade disputes' fate hangs in balance with top WTO body about to lapse

Dispute settlement mechanism will break down as the 7-member appellate body becomes defunct on Dec 10

Oct wholesale inflation at 40-month low of 0.16% on cheaper non-food items

The previous low was in June 2016, when inflation was negative 0.1 per cent. Deflationary pressure on manufactured product prices

Goyal in US: Tariff on medical devices, agri imports dominate discussions

The meeting assumes significance at a time when New Delhi has openly backed a bilateral deal with the US - a significant change in its position

Are India's existing FTAs as detrimental to its interest as RCEP?

The basic building bloc of the proposed RCEP - the Asean FTA - continues to be one-sided

BRICS Summit: Better economic linkages, trade growth on PM Modi's agenda

India is looking to step up engagement with Brazil in trade, defence, agriculture, and energy sectors, PM Modi said on Tuesday

A mini trade deal to be India's focus during Piyush Goyal's US visit

Minister also scheduled to meet US medical devices' association

Flipkart, Amazon look out! Private buyers may purchase from GeM soon

Private buyers will be able to make bulk purchases on Government e-marketplace

India may be looking at a dry spell for FTAs if RCEP falls through: Experts

Talks with major economies like the EU and US, among others, on trade and investment deals are stuck on similar issues

WTO backs US in trade dispute, says India's export subsidies illegal

The US has also cornered India at the multilateral platform, stating WTO rules prohibit middle-income nations from providing market distorting export subsidies at all

Output of 8 core industries contracts 5% in Sep, may hurt Q2 GDP growth

Gross domestic product grew by more than a six-year low of 5 per cent in the first quarter

Negotiations still unresolved, govt bets on RCEP ministers' meet on Nov 1

Among other issues, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will be under pressure in Bangkok to negotiate a proposed import cap for China, which has been strongly resisted by Beijing