{"id":38432,"date":"2026-05-09T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38432\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:19:06","slug":"india-canada-conclude-second-round-of-cepa-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/38432\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Canada conclude second round of CEPA talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 India and Canada successfully concluded the second round of negotiations for the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), held from May 4 to 8 in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The discussions were held in accordance with the Terms of Reference signed by the Trade Ministers of both countries on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Detailed discussions were held across a wide range of chapters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2259188&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The next round of negotiations will be held in Ottawa in July.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The negotiations are important as the two sides have fixed a target to increase the bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It stood at $8.66 billion in 2024-25 ($4.22 billion exports and $4.44 billion imports).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Canada represents a market of 41.65 million people (2025) and a GDP of $2.34 trillion at purchasing power parity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Major items of India\u2019s exports to Canada include pharmaceutical products, machinery parts &amp; mechanical appliances, iron &amp; steel articles, electronic goods, organic chemicals, jewellery, gems &amp; precious stones, clothing &amp; textile articles, seafood, engineering goods and auto parts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 India\u2019s major imports from Canada include pulses, fertilizers (potash), mineral fuels, wood pulp, gems &amp; precious stones (diamonds), aircraft parts, machinery parts, paper &amp; paperboard and iron &amp; aluminum scrap.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 India\u2019s main services sector exports include telecommunications, computer and information services, and other business services.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 With more than 1.8 million Indo-Canadians and estimated one million non-resident Indians, Canada hosts one of the largest Indian diaspora abroad.<\/p>\n<p>(The author is a trainer for Civil Services aspirants.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 India and Canada successfully concluded the second round of negotiations for the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,16511,596,401],"class_list":["post-38432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-cepa","tag-diplomacy","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}