Foreign Trade (Europe)
A. Functions
This Division deals with India’s trade and economic cooperation with European Union region and some of its member countries viz, UK, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Ireland, Albania, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Turkey.
B. Officers in the Division:
The Division is headed by Joint Secretary and is assisted by the following officials :-
- Nidhi Mani Tripathi, Joint Secretary
- Shri Anurag Sehgal, Deputy Secretary
- Shri Darshan Kumar Solanki, Under Secretary
- Shri Pushpendra Kumar Sharma, Under Secretary
- Shri Pushpender Kumar, Under Secretary
- Shri Vinod Kumar, Under Secretary
C. Trade Statistics of the Territory
Trade Statistics of the Territory (Please visit website of Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S) under Department of Commerce for updated information).
D. Trade Agreement and Negotiations (ongoing)
India and EU are negotiating a broad-based Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA). India is committed to an early and balanced outcome of India-EU BTIA Negotiations.
e. Trade Promotion activities
India-EU relations date to the early 1960s, with India being amongst the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the European Economic Community. A cooperation agreement signed in 1994 took the bilateral relationship beyond trade and economic cooperation.
The EU as a bloc of 28 countries is India’s one of the largest (3rd) regional trading partner while India was the EU’s 9th largest trading partner in 2018-19. India’s overall bilateral trade with European Union for the period 2018-19 is 115.64 US$ billion comprising of India’s exports to EU is 57.20 US$ billion (17.33% of India’s exports) and imports 58.43 US$ billion (11.37% of India’s imports).
India has established Institutional mechanisms with European Union and its member countries. These institutional mechanisms are handled by at various levels in Department of Commerce.
The EU continued to be one of the largest sources of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for India with FDI inflows from the EU to India valued at US $ 609.84 billion from Apr 2000-March 2017.
Meetings of FT(Europe) Division held till date (since April, 2017 -
- The 18th Session of India-Romania Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation (JCEC) 7th held in April, 2017 in New Delhi
- 18th session of India-Finland JEC held in 19-20 April, 2017 in Helsinki.
- 9th session of India-Slovak Joint Economic Committee held in 21 April, 2017 in Bratislava.
- 19th Session of India Italy Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation held during 11-12th May, 2017 at Rome, Italy.
- 15th Joint Economic Commission between India and Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU), 29th May 2017 at Luxembourg.
- 4th Session of India-Portugal Joint Commission Meeting at Lisbon on 30th May, 2017
- India-EU Sub Commission on Trade on 12th July, 2017 at Brussels.
- 24th Session of India-EU Joint Commission Meeting held on 14th July, 2017 at Brussels.
- 15th session of India-Austria JEC held in 20th July, 2017 in New Delhi.
- 17th India-France Joint Committee Meeting held on 24th October, 2017 at Paris, France.
- 1st session of India –Croatia Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation8 held in Nov., 2017 in New Delhi.
- 12th Session of India-UK JETCO held on 11th January, 2018 at London.
- 11th Session of India-Spain Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation on 18th January, 2018 at Madrid, Spain.
- 16th session of India-Switzerland Joint Economic Commission held in 23 Feb., 2018 in New Delhi.
- 18th Session of India-Bulgaria JCESTC (Joint Commission for Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation) held in 6th March, 2018. In New Delhi
- India-EU Sub-commission on Economic Cooperation held on 11th April, 2018 in Brussels.
- India-EU Sub-commission on Trade held on 6th June, 2018 in New Delhi.
- 11th session of India Czech Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation held in 22-23 Oct., 2018 in Prague.
- 10th session of India-Slovak Joint Economic Committee held in 13 Feb., 2019 in New Delhi.
- India-EU Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation held on 26th-27th February, 2019 in New Delhi.
- India-EU SCT held on 4th July, 2019 in Brussels.
- 13th JETCO meeting held during 14-16 July, 2019 in London.
F. Section 4 of RTI ( Mandatory Disclosures ) :
Name, Designation and other particulars of the CPIO in respect of FT (Europe) Division under Section 4 of RTI - Act (Mandatory Disclosures):
Shri Anurag Sehgal,
Deputy Secretary,
R. No. 223-D
Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi-110011
Tel. No. 23061810
email:- sehgal.anurag@nic.in
As on 4.9.2019