New Delhi, June 30 (ANI): India and Malaysia will operationalise Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) from July 1.
The CECA is India's fourth bilateral Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, after Singapore, South Korea and Japan. The CECA envisages liberalisation of trade in goods, trade in services, investments and other areas of economic cooperation.
Trade between India and Malaysia has reached US 10 billion dollars in 2010-11, an increase of 26 per cent from the previous year. It is expected that the implementation of this agreement will boost bilateral trade to US 15 billion dollars by 2015.
The trade in goods package under India-Malaysia CECA takes the tariff liberalization beyond the India-ASEAN FTA commitments, which were implemented by both countries on 1 January 2010.
Under India-Malaysia CECA, the items on which India has obtained market access from Malaysia include basmati rice, mangoes, eggs, trucks, motorcycles and cotton garments, which are all items of considerable export interest to India.
At the same time, adequate protection has been provided by the Indian side for sensitive sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, textiles, chemicals and auto.
Under the services agreement of the CECA, India and Malaysia have provided commercially meaningful commitments in sectors and modes of interest to each other which should result in enhanced services trade.
The CECA also facilitates the temporary movement of business people including contractual service suppliers, and independent professionals in commercially meaningful sectors including accounting and auditing, architecture, urban planning, engineering services, medical and dental, nursing and pharmacy, Computer and Related Services (CRS), and Management Consulting Services.
The India-Malaysia CECA also facilitates cross-border investments between the two countries to promote investments and create a liberal, facilitative, transparent and competitive investment regime. (ANI)
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