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NEW DELHI: Starting Thursday, Australia is acceptable to supply duty-free entree to each Indian exports nether the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), commerce and manufacture curate Piyush Goyal said Monday."From Jan 1, 2026, 100% of Australian tariff lines volition beryllium zero-duty for Indian exports, unlocking caller opportunities for labour-intensive sectors," Goyal posted connected his societal media handle.The curate said implicit the past 3 years, ECTA has delivered sustained export growth, deeper marketplace access, and stronger supply-chain resilience, benefiting Indian exporters, MSMEs, farmers and workers alike arsenic India's exports to Australia grew by 8% successful 2024-25, helping amended India's commercialized balance."Strong gains were witnessed crossed manufacturing, chemicals, textiles, plastics, pharmaceuticals, petroleum products, and gems & jewellery with gems & jewellery exports rising 16% successful April-Nov 2025. Agri-exports recorded broad-based growth, with crisp increases successful fruits and vegetables, marine products, spices, and exceptional maturation successful coffee," the curate said.The ECTA, which came into unit connected Dec 29, 2022, aims to deepen commercialized and concern ties betwixt India and Australia by progressively eliminating tariffs, simplifying marketplace access, and supporting proviso concatenation integration astatine a clip erstwhile India is progressively seeking to diversify export destinations aft commercialized ties with the US strained successful caller months.The curate further added that arsenic some sides stay engaged successful negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), ECTA continues to anchor India's economical engagement successful the Indo-Pacific.
