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The India-UAE Business Forum is set to explore mutually beneficial trade, investment and partnership opportunities when it takes place in Mumbai on September 10. Organized by the UAE’s Ministry of Economy in collaboration with the UAE Embassy in New Delhi and India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the event will gather government officials, business leaders, industrialists and entrepreneurs at the Oberoi Hotel as part of bilateral efforts to leverage the opportunities created by the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, which came into force in May, 2022. Under the theme “Beyond Cepa: Innovation and Future-Ready Economies”, the forum will showcase the range of sectors that are ripe for private-sector collaboration, with a particular focus on the potential of healthcare, biotechnology, renewable energy, sustainability, AI, logistics and supply chains, and agricultural technology.
It will be attended Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, who is heading a high-level UAE delegation. The UAE-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement was the first part of the UAE’s new foreign trade agenda that sought to strengthen ties with strategically important nations around the world.
Following its implementation in May 2022, businesses in both countries are benefitting from a reduction or removal of tariffs on more than 80 percent of products, the removal of unnecessary barriers to trade and the harmonization of customs regulations and processes..
