Turkey has bilateral and multilateral agreements: the People`s Republic of China has bilateral trade agreements with the blocs, countries and their two specific administrative regions:[13] Overall, India`s experience in trade with its main free trade partners, with the exception of SAFTA, has not been very encouraging. While India has significantly increased its exports from its free trade agreement with SAFTA countries, the EPA with Korea and the ECSC with ASEAN have been more beneficial to these economies. However, in the case of the EPA with Japan, bilateral trade declined or stagnated after the first year of implementation, but with Japan, too, the trade deficit increased considerably. In addition to a number of domestic factors that have hampered the competitiveness of Indian exports and prevented India from using preferential market access in these partner countries, a number of FTA-related issues are responsible for a less favourable development of India`s trade relations with ASEAN, Korea and Japan. These issues include erroneous obligations, stricter rules of origin, a lack of awareness of free trade agreements and high compliance costs. It is therefore important that India is not satisfied with the opening of a review of the India-ASEAN free trade agreement, but the existing EPA provisions with Korea and Japan should also be evaluated to make them more trade-friendly and business-friendly. However, it is equally important that India at the same time develop all necessary measures to remove barriers to the overall competitiveness of exports in the country. The Eurasian Economic Union, composed of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, has concluded free trade agreements, see below. A comprehensive analysis of trade between India and its key free trade partners, discussed above, shows a significant increase in trade since the agreements came into force. SAFTA came into force on 1 January 2006 and, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, bilateral trade between India and other SAFTA member states increased from $6.8 billion in 2005-06 to $28.5 billion in 2018-19. India`s trade with SAFTA grew faster than its overall trade with the world. As a result, SAFTA`s share of India`s international trade increased from 1.6% in 2005-06 to 2.5% in 2018-19. At the same time, Indian exports to SAFTA countries grew faster than their imports from them, resulting in a significant increase in the trade surplus with these economies from about $4 billion to $21 billion.

The maximum growth in exports to the SAFTA REGION was recorded with Bangladesh and Nepal. List of agreements between two states, two blocs or one bloc and one state. It is a list of free trade agreements between two parties in which each party could be a country (or another customs territory), a trade bloc or an informal group of countries. monil shah posted 10 comments on Timesofindia.com to earn the Wordsmith Level 1 badge. ASEAN is one of India`s main trading partners. The ECSC with ASEAN came into force on January 1, 2010 and bilateral trade between the two parties increased from about $43 billion in 2009-10 to $97 billion in 2018-19. As with SAFTA`s Indian trade, bilateral trade between India and ASEAN grew faster than India`s total trade with the world, resulting in an increase of 9.4% to 11.5% of ASEAN`s share of Indian world trade. However, unlike India-SAFTA trade, Indian imports from ASEAN grew significantly faster than Indian exports to ASEAN. Another important point to take into account is that imports from ASEAN grew much faster than Indian imports from the world.