India, Sept. 4 -- The government is focused on maximising the utilisation of free trade agreements (FTAs) after securing preferential access to two-thirds of the global market through nine trade deals, commerce minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday, even as India is on course to forge several more FTAs with major economies such as the US, Canada and Chile.

Goyal, who is scheduled to visit the US later this month, said finalisation of the interim bilateral trade agreement (BTA) with Washington awaits a tariff structure that gives India a comparative advantage over its competitors.

India and the US finalised a framework for an interim BTA on February 2, but an agreement could not be signed after the US Supreme Court invalidated the legal...