The India-UK free trade agreement, signed in July 2025, will bring down import costs, increase trade benefitting both industries and consumers, and generate new employment opportunities for the youth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to India within a few months of signing the free trade pact — officially the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) — with a 126-member business delegation, symbolises the increased energy in the India-UK partnership, Modi said in a joint statement with Starmer in Mumbai on Thursday.

Starmer, who is on an official two-day visit to India, said the signing of the free trade deal was a “breakthrough moment” and his visit was about doubling down on the potential of the pact for the benefit of both sides.

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