The government will organise as many as 1,000 outreach programmes, including stakeholder meetings, workshops, awareness drives and feedback sessions, in the next 20 days across the country to sensitise industry and states on the India-UK comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA), which was signed on July 24. The exercise is aimed at ensuring effective implementation and maximising benefits from the pact.
“There is a plan to hold sector-wise outreach programmes. Teams will also visit different states to inform them about the benefits of this trade agreement,” said an official.
Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal will hold a meeting with the leather and textiles sector on the trade pact here on Monday. “We will meet every sector. We are sensitising sectors and will do sectoral meetings and with all states,” the official said on preparing the groundwork for the implementation of the pact. It will come into force after the UK ratifies it, which would take up to a year.
When the pact comes into force, 99% of Indian exports will enter the UK duty-free.
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