New Delhi, April 27 -- The India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) ensures protection to farmers, rural economies and the domestic industry, according to a release from the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry. As part of this protection for sensitive sectors, market access excludes dairy, key agricultural products. coffee, milk, cream, cheese, yoghurts, whey, caseins, onions, sugar, spices, edible oils, and rubber, it added.

India has offered tariff liberalisation on 70.03% of tariff lines covering 95% of bilateral trade value, while keeping 29.97% of tariff lines in exclusion to protect India's sensitive sectors, the statement added.

Products kept in exclusion are:

Other protection measures include:

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