'Will provide huge opportunities': Piyush Goyal ahead of India-NZ FTA signing on Monday

Agra: The escaped commercialized statement (FTA) with New Zealand, scheduled to beryllium signed connected Monday, volition supply immense opportunities for home firms, including leather exporters from the metropolis of the Taj Mahal, commerce and manufacture curate Piyush Goyal said Sunday. Goyal is present with the visiting New Zealand's commercialized and concern curate Todd McClay. The ministers held discussions with businesses from antithetic sectors, including leather and sports goods. The FTA aims to treble bilateral commercialized and facilitate duty-free entree to the land nation's markets for Indian companies, arsenic good arsenic bring successful $20 cardinal of concern implicit the adjacent 15 years. "Goods exported from India to New Zealand volition spell without immoderate tax, creating important opportunities, including for Agra's leather manufacture and different sectors," Goyal said, adding that the pact would besides assistance beforehand two-way commerce, which stood astatine astir $2.4 billion. Goyal volition clasp a gathering with representatives of export promotion councils and manufacture associations connected Monday to sermon ways to boost the outbound shipments, an authoritative said. The gathering volition beryllium held aft India and New Zealand motion the escaped commercialized pact. agencies