‘Mother of all deals’: EU and India sign free trade agreement
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Jennifer Rankin from on (#734CM)
Tariffs cut to zero for many industrial products, including iron and steel, plastics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals
India and the EU have finalised a landmark free trade agreement, which the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, hailed as the mother of all deals".
The agreement comes after almost two decades of on-off negotiations between India and the EU, which vastly accelerated in the past six months and were finally concluded late on Monday night.
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