COMMERCE AND Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Wednesday said significant progress has been made in talks with the European Union (EU) to reach a free trade agreement.

New Delhi is keen to wrap up the India-EU Free Trade Agreement. The EU provides a stable market for a range of Indian merchandise exports. India’s exports to the EU in the last financial year stood at $82 billion, slightly lower than to the US ($86.5 billion).

“We have made significant progress during my three-day visit to Brussels from October 26-28. We have agreed to close 10 out of 20 chapters. Another four or five chapters have principally been broadly decided and on more and more issues, we are leading towards convergence so that when their team visits next week for the next round of negotiations or when the trade com

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