New Delhi, June 22 -- A two-day national workshop on environment-linked trade barriers and free trade agreements began in the capital on Monday, with the government and trade experts deliberating on how new climate-related non-tariff measures will impact India's export competitiveness.

According to a press release by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, the Department of Commerce, in collaboration with the Centre for WTO Studies (CWS) and the Centre for Research in International Trade (CRIT), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), inaugurated the National Workshop/Chintan Shivir on "Environment-Related Non-Tariff Measures: WTO Rules and Their Implications for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)" at Nalanda Hall, IIFT Bhawan, New Delhi on Mon...