There has been a surge in free trade agreements (FTAs), with a total number at the global level touching almost 600 in number. The solid theoretical underpinning is that the FTAs enable faster economic growth and development by creating trade and investment linkages. Compared to the world, the...

India and China have significant bilateral trade flows leading to trade specialization in different product categories. The bilateral trade between these countries is clearly dominated by the Chinese exports. The trade figures show that the value of India's import from China stood at USD 71.9...

There is a growing debate on the electronic commerce modes of deliveries, the core issue of the two-year moratorium and the extension of similar treatment of all digitisable products. Looking for similarity to Doha Round sectoral proposals, wherein also tariff elimination was at the core of...

The paper explores e-commerce related reforms across production re-structuring, trade, FDI, and the regulatory policies needed to enable the South Asian firms to benefit from servicification of the goods trade. The increased automation and digitisation of production across many of the identified...