Archive · 2 Oct 2025
India, ASEAN Officials Meet to Review Trade Agreement
India and the ASEAN countries, a group of 10 Southeast Asian nations, are working on a trade agreement.
They signed a deal to make it easier to trade goods in 2009.
Now, they are reviewing this deal to improve it.
Officials from India and ASEAN will meet in Jakarta to discuss the changes.
This review aims to make trade between India and ASEAN fairer and more balanced.
The goal is to have an updated agreement by 2025.
The current trade between India and ASEAN is worth billions of dollars.
Trade negotiators from India and ASEAN will meet in Jakarta to review their goods trade pact.
The review aims to upgrade the existing ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement.
The review process is led by a joint committee with eight sub-committees.
India is seeking to address asymmetries in trade and make it more sustainable.
The goal is to have significant progress to report by the ASEAN-India Summit on October 27.
- Who
- Trade negotiators from India and ASEAN
- What
- Are meeting to review the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement.
- When
- Meetings are to begin next week in Jakarta, with further progress to be reported at the summit on October 27th.
- Where
- Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Why
- To advance the review of the goods trade pact.
- Participants
- India and ASEAN trade negotiators
- Meeting Location
- Jakarta
- Date of Meeting
- From Monday
- Agreement Reviewed
- ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement
- Signed in
- 2009
- Trade Deal In Force
- January 2010
- Bilateral Trade (2024-25)
- USD 123 billion