VOA News Item 1经济：印度及东南亚国家签署了自由贸易协定
Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his counterparts from the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations sealed the agreement in Bangkok Thursday. They met on the sidelines of
the annual ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting.
The agreement creates one of Asia’s biggest trading areas and integrates India’s fast growing
economy with 10 of its neighbors.
Trade between India and ASEAN amounts to $40 billion each year. Under the pact, India and
ASEAN will eliminate tariffs on various goods by 2016.
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