FTA records 8 India trade-agreement records

Eight India trade-agreement records, researched from official sources, August 2026

Eight India trade-agreement records, each rendered from official sources with every figure numbered to a citation. Three are firmly in force (EFTA TEPA, Oman CEPA, MERCOSUR PTA); one is in force but under active review (AIFTA); one is in force but institutionally dormant (SAFTA); one runs across four separate instruments with four separate statuses (Thailand); and two are status records, not agreement records — India–Israel is under negotiation with no agreement yet, and India–Egypt has no trade agreement at all, with the old spine’s CECA claim uncorroborated across seventeen sources checked.

The eight records

• IN FORCE

  India–EFTA TEPA

  in force since 1 October 2025

• IN FORCE REVIEW UNDERWAY

  ASEAN–India Free Trade Area (AIFTA)

  goods pillar in force since 2010 · upgrade review ongoing

• IN FORCE

  India–Oman CEPA

  in force since 1 June 2026

• NEGOTIATING

  India–Israel FTA

  under negotiation · no agreement yet

  Status record — no trade agreement exists yet.

• IN FORCE DORMANT

  South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA)

  in force since 2006 · SAARC institutionally frozen since 2014

• MULTI-INSTRUMENT

  India–Thailand trade agreements

  four instruments, four different statuses

• IN FORCE

  India–MERCOSUR PTA

  in force since 1 June 2009 · expansion talks reopened October 2025

• NO AGREEMENT

  India–Egypt trade relationship

  no FTA, PTA, or CEPA exists

  Status record — no trade agreement exists yet.

How these records are built

Each record is rendered from a JSON research file, not written freehand: every sourced fact carries an inline citation number, every figure that comes from more than one series is shown as separate labelled series rather than averaged, every place two sources disagree is recorded as a disagreement rather than silently resolved, and everything that could not be sourced is listed as a gap rather than left unmentioned. Status badges read: IN FORCE (the agreement is operative), REVIEW UNDERWAY (in force, with a formal modernisation review still open), DORMANT (in force on paper, but the institutional machinery around it is frozen), NEGOTIATING (no agreement yet, active talks), NO AGREEMENT (no agreement and no formal talks), and MULTI-INSTRUMENT (more than one legal instrument governs the relationship, each with its own status).