Facing slowdown and recession in some of its key economies, the European Union has approached India for restarting negotiations on the stalled free trade agreement, a top official has said. "We have been in engagement in the last year on the Bilateral Comprehensive Economic Agreement with EU, what is called the Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA).
"Now EU has expressed its willingness to start the process again," Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher has said on the sidelines of the ongoing India Engineering Sourcing Show (IESS), organised by EEPC India, here on Tuesday. He said India was also willing to re-engage with the EU on the market-opening trade agreement.
"So as far as that engagement is concerned, we are clearly waiting for EU to take the first step, because we have already conveyed to EU that we will be prepared to resume the engagement whenever EU feels comfortable with that," Kher said.