Trade deals, PLI, labour reforms: Will 2026 be an inflection point for Indian economy?
Kolkata: India has aggressively begun to pursue trade agreements with several countries most of whom hold a lot of promise of deepening trade ties. The government is also pursuing a lot of reforms that could alter the landscape through production-linked incentives (PLIs), labour reforms and supply-chain resilience. All these can take place when the government is trying to restore the pre-eminence of manufacturing in the country’s economic map.
From the first day of the New Year, Australia will offer zero-duty access across all of Indian exports under the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement. IN fact, this could turn into a game changing development for the bilateral trade between the two countries. It could do a lot of good to the labour-intensive sectors such as textiles, apparel, leather, gems and jewellery, engineering goods and processed foods. Significantly, these are he sectors........





















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