India's meat, shrimp exporters hope for new markets with India-UK FTA

Indian exporters expect a rise in meat, shrimp, and spirits demand in the UK as tariff removal under the Free Trade Agreement opens access to South-East Asian diaspora

India’s animal products and processed food exporters expect a surge in demand from the South-East Asian diaspora in the United Kingdom (UK) following the signing of free trade agreement (FTA).

 

When it comes to agricultural imports, traders expect an uninterrupted flow of scotch, lamb, sweet products, and salmon into India.

 

Though, when it comes to frozen buffalo meat and processed meat products of which India is a major exporter globally, non-tariff barriers such as stringent phytosanitary norms mean India, at present, export negligible quantities of meat products to the UK. But traders feel abolition of the duties could mean opening