New Delhi, April 10 -- union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, announced on Friday that India is in talks with 20 additional countries to open market access and broaden trade opportunities.
He said these negotiations are aimed to build on nine Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed over the past three-and-a-half years.
These FTAs provided preferential access to 38 developed nations.
Piyush Goyal's remarks came while addressing the business leaders in Coimbatore.
"We are in discussions with, apart from these 38 countries, at least 20 more countries to open market access in all of them. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Eurasian region, and Israel as participants in these ongoing trade talks," he said.
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