"With Canada, while they are also not much of a manufacturing base, we have to go into more details. With the UK, it's a manufacturing country on many products. So we have to do it very carefully"
The country's services exports are doing extremely well and going by the current trend these outbound shipments would register about 20% growth in this fiscal
Goyal said sensitive issues will not be allowed to scuttle the FTA talks with UK and they will focus on what is acceptable to both countries
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Goyal was speaking at the fourth Plenary Session of the B20 India Inception Meeting on Building Resilient Global Value Chains in Gandhinagar
He mentioned that India was one of the top five countries in the world in terms of adopting and implementing environmental goals
Will be significant ramp-up compared to 5-7% now
'They are already at about 5-7% of their manufacturing in India. If I am not mistaken, they are targeting to go up to 25% of their manufacturing'
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday called for making a strong database of all startups in the country as it would belp both public and private sectors
He said FCI will follow the principle of zero tolerance for corruption and there is a need to ensure that there is not a single corrupt employee in FCI
Live news updates: The remains would be taken to Sharad Yadav's ancestral village in Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh
In June last year, members of the WTO agreed to grant a temporary patent waiver for the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines for five years
Goyal also emphasised upon the need for de-politicisation of the global supply of essential medicines
Two specific targets for this elevated engagement were semiconductors and defence production
The Trade Policy Forum, revived in 2021 after a gap for four years, will reconvene on a ministerial level before end of 2023
Goyal co-chaired the India-US Trade Policy Forum meeting with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Wednesday
'I think in terms of GSP, I have not heard any significant clamour from the Indian industry. To focus our energies on the GSP issue, I have raised it today with my counterparts'
India and the United States are developing a mechanism for the Indian fishermen to be able to export shrimps for the American consumers, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said
India discussed with the US the inordinate delays in issuance of business visas to the people from India, and there has been a good resonance of it by the Americans, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said
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