India’s Bilateral Free Trade Agreement
(as of September 2025)
India has signed several bilateral trade agreements with various countries and regions.
(India and a corresponding country – Bilateral.)
Details on some of India’s existing bilateral agreements as of September 2025 are available, including those with
- Afghanistan (Preferential Trade Agreement – PTA),
- Australia (Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement – ECTA),
- Bhutan (Trade Agreement), Chile (PTA),
- Japan (Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement – CEPA),
- Malaysia (Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement – CECA),
- Mauritius (Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement – CECPA),
- Nepal (Treaty of Trade),
- Singapore (CECA), South Korea (CEPA),
- Sri Lanka (Free Trade Agreement – FTA),
- Thailand (Early Harvest Scheme – EHS),
- United Arab Emirates (UAE) (CEPA), and
- United Kingdom (UK) (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – CETA).
India’s Multi-lateral Free Trade Agreements (FTA between India and a region)
India is also a participant in multilateral agreements, including the
- Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) with countries like Bangladesh and South Korea
- ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA),
- ASEAN-India Trade in Services Agreement (AITISA), and
- ASEAN-India Investment Agreement (AIIA) with ASEAN member states as part of the
- India-ASEAN Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement.
- Other multilateral agreements include the Global System of Trade Preferences (GSTP) among developing countries
- India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) (with countries like Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein)
- India-MERCOSUR PTA, and the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA).
Further, India is in talks with the below listed countries for FTA and Group of Countries:
These include talks with
- Bangladesh (CEPA), and the European Union (EU) (FTA),
- Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) (FTA) – Russia etc.
- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (FTA), and
- Israel (FTA).
- New Zealand (FTA),
- Oman (CEPA),
- Peru (FTA),
- Qatar (FTA),
- Chile (FTA)
- United States (US) (Bilateral Trade Agreement – BTA)
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