Tokyo [Japan], October 29 (ANI): Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday mentioned progress in India-EU Free Trade Agreement negotiations with European Commission’s Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis.
“Discussed progress of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement negotiations with my friend @VDombrovskis, Executive Vice President of the European Commission,” the Union Commerce Minister wrote on ‘X’.
Piyush Goyal on Saturday participated within the G7 Trade Ministers’ Meeting in Osaka, Japan, and urged governments of G7 nations to collaborate on a regulatory framework to ease the motion of provide chains and facilitate cross-border commerce.
The Group of Seven is an intergovernmental political discussion board consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and the US. The European Union is included as a “non-enumerated member”.
During the assembly, Goyal made an necessary intervention on the subject of enhancing provide chain resilience and gave a number of recommendations on the difficulty, as per a launch issued by the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
He talked about that the COVID pandemic and the geo-political occasions highlighted the vulnerabilities of the prevailing provide chains resulting in a rise in commodity costs and international inflation.
The minister inspired public-private partnership, funding in essential infrastructure and the necessity for innovation and digitalization of provide chains. Goyal highlighted the necessity for provide chain diversification and skilling and re-skilling of personnel.
He additionally recalled the Generic Framework for Mapping of Global Value Chains (GVCs) talked about within the New Delhi Declaration of the G20.
The session additionally noticed participation from representatives from the governments, non-public sector and worldwide organisations like OECD, WTO, and so on. Most of the non-public sectors shared their optimistic experiences in creating resilient provide chains, as per the official launch.
Suzuki made a presentation on their expertise in India. Suzuki talked about how they developed a dependable and trusted vendor base in India and achieved over 95 per cent indigenisation of their provide chains in India.
ERIA additionally talked about a research performed by them that confirmed the rising share of India in international worth chains.
Ministers from Australia, Chile, Indonesia and Kenya additionally made their interventions and shared recommendations on this subject.
The Union Commerce Minister had bilateral engagements with a number of ministers. He met Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Nishimura Yasutoshi, UK’s Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch, Australia’s Minister for Trade and Tourism Don Farrell and Ambassador, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Germany’s Secretary of State, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Udo Phillip, in response to the discharge issued by the commerce ministry.
The Japanese Economy Minister Nishimura wrote on X: “My table at the G7 reception is a “quad” table. It is a four-country collaboration between Japan, the United States, Australia and India. Minister Goyal, an ally of India, was excited about the video introducing the traditional culture of Japan and Kansai, saying, ‘India and Japan have a lot in common culturally’.”Goyal in response wrote: “Thank you Minister Nishimura Yasutoshi for your warm hospitality and productive meetings.”During his bilateral engagements, Goyal mentioned necessary points together with enhancing bilateral commerce, elimination of non-tariff limitations, an replace on the standing of the continued FTA negotiations and the upcoming ministerial convention on WTO. Goyal additionally met Director General of WTO Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Chairman, Mitsui, Japan and Japan-India Business Cooperation Committee Tatsuo Yasunagawa (JIBCC).
G7 accounts for over half of world community wealth, 30-43 per cent of world GDP and 10 per cent of the world’s inhabitants. India is among the many choose international locations which have been invited by the G7 within the assembly of commerce ministers in Osaka. (ANI)