India is giving priority to boost trade with European Union and foresees no difficulty in signing a free trade and investment agreement with EU, notwithstanding wide differences between the two sides in the WTO over the Doha Round of trade talks.
India and EU are negotiating a free trade and investment agreement aimed at phasing out and eliminating import duties on a large number of trade items.
Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath, who has been engaged in tough bargains at the multilateral platform with EU and US, said on Monday, "I do not think it (FTA with EU) is a difficult agreement..."
"We have no divergence on agriculture and no offensive interest in industrial goods," Nath said at a CII meeting with Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Vayrynen
id="div_arti_inline_advt">