India and the UK will hold their next round of talks for the proposed free trade agreement in June, and both the sides are aiming to conclude the negotiations at the earliest. The talks cover 26 policy areas/chapters, and negotiations are being negotiated as a separate agreement - a bilateral investment treaty - which would be concluded simultaneously with the India-UK free trade agreement. So far 13 chapters have been substantially closed for negotiations and regular meetings Held at higher levels to review the progress of talks and to resolve the outstanding issues. The fifth round of talks for a trade pact between India and the European Union (EU) is scheduled from June 19-23 in India. So far four rounds of negotiations have been completed till March. During the last round, negotiations on 21 policy areas in 74 technical sessions were held. India’s commerce secretary and EU’s DG (Trade) will meet in August to review the progress.

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