IPEF

Trump’s trade policy: Fix 'unfair, unbalanced trade, counter currency manipulation'

January 22, 2025 7:33 am

During his first term, Trump had invoked national security provisions to impose 25 per cent tariffs on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium from India and other countries.

Does the Adani bribery allegation weaken India’s position at global trade forums?

December 18, 2024 9:09 am

Responding to a query on Adani’s indictment and India’s standing in IPEF during a press briefing on Monday, Commerce Secretary Sunil Barthwal said, “We have taken the same commitments which other governments have taken in the IPEF pillar. Whatever law is there in the country, that is going to be followed.”

IPEF members to organise investor forum meet in Singapore

April 09, 2024 2:38 pm

The government has invited applications from domestic climate tech entrepreneurs and companies to participate in the meeting, the commerce ministry said in a statement.

IPEF supply chain pact won’t impact policy space to impose export curbs: Official

November 22, 2023 12:21 am

IPEF was launched jointly by the United States and other partner countries of the Indo-Pacific region on May 23 last year largely to counter China’s influence on trade.

India, US, 12 other IPEF members ink supply chain resilience agreement

November 15, 2023 10:06 pm

India weighs better market access to join IPEF trade pillar

July 14, 2023 5:05 am

As of now, market access has not been agreed upon for India, which is being seen as a crucial factor to join the trade pillar (Pillar-I), the official said. India has an observer status on the trade pillar negotiations.

IPEF will prove to be in many ways more economically impactful than FTA: US commerce secretary

March 09, 2023 4:33 pm

The IPEF was launched jointly by the US and other partner countries of the Indo-Pacific region on May 23 in Tokyo. The 14 IPEF partners represent 40 per cent of global GDP and 28 per cent of global goods and services trade.

New paradigm: FTAs, multilateral exposure limited to supply chains, governance

September 12, 2022 7:20 am

While the global slowdown is a key contributing factor, there are specific concerns too: India seems to be impacted more than others as the trade pie shrinks.

India accepts three out of four pillars of US-led IPEF, so why has it stopped short of a total agreement?

September 10, 2022 3:46 pm

So far, India has agreed to three pillars relating to supply chains: tax, anti-corruption and clean energy, but the fourth pillar on data and privacy is yet to be completely agreed upon.

What IPEF offers India: Opportunities, tough negotiations

June 11, 2022 9:01 am

Karthik Nachiappan writes: Indo-Pacific Economic Framework will generate fierce regulatory battles amongst bureaucrats and regulators in each country to ascertain which commitments advance and which hurt domestic interests