New Delhi, Feb. 20 -- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal held a high-level meeting with Guy Parmelin, President, Swiss Confederation, in New Delhi on Thursday with the discussion focused on translating market-access gains under the India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) into concrete business partnerships and investment commitments.

TEPA is India's first trade agreement with the EFTA bloc - Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland - and its first operational trade arrangement with a European economic grouping, complementing engagements with the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Goyal invited greater Swiss investment, particularly in sectors where Switzerland has niche technological capabilities. ...