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GCC, India Seek Ways to Boost Trade 2 New Delhi

GCC Framework Agreement on Economic Cooperation (FAC). The agreement was signed by Kuwait Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on behalf of GCC and the Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath on Aug. 25.
The salient features of FAC include: Both sides to consider ways and means for expanding and liberalizing their trade relations including initiating discussions on the feasibility of a Free Trade Area (FTA) between them and to make arrangements for setting up joint investment projects and facilitating corporate investments in various fields.
The meeting held yesterday is strongly suggestive of both India and GCC being desirous of exploring possibilities of giving a boost to their commercial and economic ties, including trade and investment.
Kamal Nath's opinion that though bilateral trade between India and Gulf countries has shown consistent increase, it is not commensurate with the potential. During 2003-4, while India's exports to GCC were $7.02 billion, imports from GCC, excluding oil, was $3.25 billion. The UAE is the second largest importer of Indian goods, after the US and Saudi Arabia is the 16th largest destination of
Indian goods. Though substantial oil and gas reserves of the GCC region play a vital role in fulfilling India's energy needs and are integral to country's energy security, in recent ties, India-GCC trade having become extremely diversified is not limited to oil and oil products only.
India's traditional economic ties with GCC have become even stronger in recent years, primarily due to increasing imports of oil and gas, growing trade and investment opportunities and presence of 3.5 million Indian workers in the region.
Major commodities exported to GCC member states from India include gems and jewelry, textile products, metal manufactures, machinery and instruments, iron and steel etc., while major non-oil items imported from GCC countries include gold, organic and inorganic chemicals, non-ferrous metals etc.


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