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India-UK FTA to provide boost to India's merchandise, services exports: FIEO President
Jul-16-2026

Welcoming the implementation of the India-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (India-UK FTA), the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has described it as a transformational milestone. It listed benefits of this FTA such as deepening of bilateral trade, enhancement in India's export competitiveness and new opportunities for exporters across sectors. According to the exporters body, the agreement will also encourage greater participation of startups, women-led enterprises, and first-time exporters, while strengthening integration with global value chains and promoting innovation-led exports. 

Further, S C Ralhan, President of FIEO has noted that implementation of agreement marks a historic milestone in India's export journey. It opens a new chapter in the country’s economic partnership with one of India's most important trading partners and provides Indian exporters with preferential market access, greater certainty, and enhanced competitiveness in the UK market. Ralhan also said that this agreement will particularly benefit Indian MSMEs, labour-intensive industries, farmers, artisans, craftsmen, women entrepreneurs, and the services sector, creating new avenues for sustainable export growth and employment generation.

President of FIEO stated that the FTA is expected to provide a significant boost to India's merchandise and services exports by reducing tariff barriers, improving market access, simplifying trade procedures, and encouraging greater investments and technology partnerships between the two countries. He observed that labour-intensive sectors stand to gain substantially from the agreement, particularly textiles and apparel, garments, leather and footwear, carpets, handicrafts, gems and jewellery, furniture, engineering goods, sports goods, marine products, processed foods, tea, coffee, spices, agricultural products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and auto components.


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