EU-India Free Trade Agreement: $27 Trillion Market Opens Up
The EU and India announce a landmark Free Trade Agreement covering a $27 trillion combined GDP market and 2 billion people.
Trade coverage focused on the mechanics — tariffs, shipping capacity, customs, currency and the supply-chain arrangements that sit behind a landed cost.
For an importing business, trade policy is not abstract. A tariff change or a shipping-rate move lands directly in the cost of goods, often with weeks of notice and no ability to reprice existing contracts.
Supply chain resilience has stopped being a theoretical concern. The businesses that handled recent disruption best were generally the ones that knew where their inputs actually came from — including the tiers of supply behind their direct suppliers.
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Australia's trade position — commodity exports, manufactured imports, and heavy exposure to a small number of partners — makes trade policy unusually consequential here. A tariff decision made elsewhere can reprice an entire category of imported goods with no domestic alternative available at scale.
Currency deserves more attention than it gets from small importers. A ten per cent move in the exchange rate does the same thing to landed cost as a ten per cent tariff, arrives with no notice at all, and is the one exposure a business can actually hedge.
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The EU and India announce a landmark Free Trade Agreement covering a $27 trillion combined GDP market and 2 billion people.
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