With Australia eager to expedite negotiations on the proposed full-fledged Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) with India soon after the country’s general elections are over, the Commerce Department, is collecting inputs from the Indian industry on non-tariff barriers faced in the Australian market across sectors to make a case for their removal, sources have said.

India on Monday permitted export of 14,000 million tonnes of non-basmati white rice to Mauritius, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification.

A seven-member delegation from India led by Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, Shri Amardeep Singh Bhatia accompanied by High Commissioner of India to Republic of Ghana, Shri Manish Gupta and Economic Adviser, Department of Commerce, Ms. Priya P. Nair held a Joint Trade Committee (JTC) meeting with their Ghanaian counterparts in Accra from 2nd to 3rd May, 2024. The JTC was co-chaired by Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Republic of Ghana, Hon. Michael Okyere-Baafi; and Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, Shri Amardeep Singh Bhatia.

The government has lifted export ban on onion and imposed a minimum export price (MEP) of $550/tonne, a day after it re-introduced 40 per cent export duty. Amid farmers’ discontent in Maharashtra, the decision to lift the ban has come 43 days after the government extended it for an indefinite period.

From 'leteku' (Burmese grapes) to flat beans, pumpkin, various fruits like pineapple, jackfruit, starfruit, plums and kaji lemon, which has been recently designated as the state fruit, geographical identification (GI)-tagged aromatic joha and aijung rice grown in Assam have successfully accessed the international market through the platform provided by Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to farmers.