{"id":72110,"date":"2016-07-07T23:15:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=003d650d74a41e74c6263dca292006be"},"modified":"2016-07-07T23:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:15:03","slug":"press-release-business-secretary-to-launch-preliminary-trade-talks-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72110","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Business Secretary to launch preliminary trade talks with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<ul>\n<li>Business Secretary Sajid Javid will be in Delhi today (8 July 2016) where he will launch initial discussions on the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>\u2019s future trade relationship with India<\/li>\n<li>first in a series of visits to key trade partners the Business Secretary is expected to undertake across the globe<\/li>\n<li>Business Secretary also confirms government will rapidly build its expertise on trade, with up to 300 specialist staff to be in place by year end<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Business Secretary Sajid Javid will kick-off preliminary trade talks with India later today (8 July 2016) when he meets the Indian Finance and Commerce Ministers during a series of discussions in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Secretary will use meetings with Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to outline his vision for what a future trade relationship between the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> and India might look like outside the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first in a series of trade meetings the Business Secretary will conduct over the coming months, which also is expected to include trips to the USA, China, Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Secretary has also confirmed that to aid in discussions, the government plans to rapidly build its trade capability \u2013 up to 300 specialist staff, including new trade negotiators \u2013 by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Business Secretary Sajid Javid said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Following the referendum result, my absolute priority is making sure the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> has the tools it needs to continue to compete on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>That is why I am in India today to launch these initial trade discussions. There is a strong bilateral trade relationship between our 2 countries and I am determined that we build on this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Over the coming months, I will be conducting similar meetings with other key trade partners, outlining the government\u2019s vision for what the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>\u2019s future trade relationship might look like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of the discussions, the Business Secretary is expected to make clear that he would like the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> and India to have a trade agreement in place as soon as possible after the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> leaves the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Secretary has also been speaking to British diplomats this week, urging them to utilise their expertise and meet with their governments and local investors to make clear the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> remains an open and viable trade partner.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the <abbr title=\"Foreign and Commonwealth Office\">FCO<\/abbr> Leadership Conference on Tuesday (5 July 2016), the Business Secretary urged diplomats to make it known to their countries\u2019 governments that the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> was looking to expand its options for trade deals.<\/p>\n<p>Trade and Investment Minister Lord Price has been in Hong Kong and China this week, attending the G20 trade ministers meeting in Shanghai and meeting key government and business representatives. This is part of the government\u2019s engagement with key trade partners, reinforcing the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>\u2019s ongoing commitment to maintaining and strengthening the economic relationship between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside visiting Delhi, the Business Secretary will also be in Mumbai where he will meet senior Tata Group board members to discuss the ongoing sale of their <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> steelmaking assets.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>India and the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> have always had traditionally close trade ties: the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> is the largest G20 investor in India, while India invests more in the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> than the rest of the European Union combined. India has also emerged as the third largest source of <abbr title=\"Foreign Direct Investment\">FDI<\/abbr> for the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Last year, bilateral trade in goods and services between the 2 countries was \u00a316.55 billion (in goods was \u00a311.43 billion while trade in services was \u00a35.11 billion)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>According to the government of India data, the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> is the third largest investor in India for the period April 2000 to September 2015, with cumulative inflows of $22.5 billion.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In 2014 to 2015, the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> won a record number of investment projects and is India\u2019s top investment destination in Europe. India is also Britain\u2019s third biggest job creator in 2014, with a 65% increase in <abbr title=\"Foreign Direct Investment\">FDI<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A new industry report by CII and Grant Thornton tracking Indian companies based in the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> has revealed that many of them are boosting growth rates in the country, registering a combined increase in revenue of \u00a34 billion: from \u00a322 billion in 2014 to \u00a326 billion in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>According to London and Partners in 2015 Indians also become the second biggest job creators in London. Indian companies created 504 new jobs this year in London alone &#8211; second only to the Americans who created 1983 jobs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In 2014 to 2015 Indian investments in 122 <abbr title=\"Foreign Direct Investment\">FDI<\/abbr> projects created 7,730 new jobs and safeguarded 1,620 jobs in <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Secretary Sajid Javid to start preliminary trade talks with India during a series of discussions in Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}