India–Israel FTA under negotiation · no agreement yet
Rendered from the All Frontier Global FTA registry · researched from official sources, August 2026 · every figure below carries a numbered source
NEGOTIATING
Status record: this page documents the current state of the relationship, not a concluded trade agreement — there is nothing here to summarise as tariff schedules or rules of origin because none exist yet.
No India–Israel FTA exists. Two formal negotiating rounds have been held under a Terms of Reference signed 20 November 2025 (round 1: Feb 2026, round 2: Jul 2026); two more rounds are expected (Oct 2026, and ‘by February’ 2027) before either side expects to know where the deal stands[1][2][7][11]. This follows an earlier, separate 2010–2013 negotiation that stalled and lay dormant for roughly a decade.
StatusIN NEGOTIATION[1][2][7][11]not signed, not concluded, not notified to WTO
Rounds held2 of an expected 4[7][8][9]Feb 2026 & Jul 2026, New Delhi
Next rounds~Oct 2026, then ‘probably the last, by Feb’ 2027[11][12]
Headline tradeUSD 3.93 billion, FY2025-26[7][8][9]latest full-year figure found
The agreement
India-Israel Free Trade Agreement (proposed) — UNDER NEGOTIATION, NOT CONCLUDED
Parties: India and Israel
Negotiating Authorities:
India: Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry (chief negotiator: Ajay Bhadoo, Additional Secretary)
Israel: Ministry of Economy and Industry (chief negotiator: Yifat Alon Perel, Senior Director, Trade Policy & Agreements)
No India-Israel FTA exists. Two formal negotiating rounds have been held under a Terms of Reference signed 2025-11-20 (round 1: Feb 2026, round 2: Jul 2026); two more rounds are expected (Oct 2026, and 'by February' 2027) before either side expects to know 'exactly where we stand,' per Israel's ambassador to India. This follows an earlier, separate negotiation attempt (2010–2013, at least 8 rounds) that stalled and lay dormant for roughly a decade.[1][2][7][11]
Status in detail
IN NEGOTIATION — NOT SIGNED, NOT CONCLUDED, NOT IN FORCE, NOT NOTIFIED TO WTO
The netcup skeleton spine labels this 'negotiating,' which is directionally correct at the top level — but the skeleton's supporting text ('on-and-off since 2010') is dangerously vague: it flattens a real ~2010-2013 negotiation, a ~decade-long total dormancy (roughly 2014-2025), and a distinct, newly-launched 2025-2026 negotiation into one continuous blur. It also asserts specific legal content (a completed 'Investment Protection' chapter on 2016 Model BIT terms with NT/MFN/FET/expropriation/ISDS-carve-out; a finished RoO formula of 'CTH + 35-40% RVC') for chapters that CANNOT have final text yet, because no agreement has been concluded. Those specific claims are treated as unverified/likely-fabricated below, not carried forward as fact. See conflicts.
Description: India first proposed/launched FTA negotiations with Israel in 2010. Multiple rounds were held through 2012-2013.
Last Confirmed Round: 8th round, held in Israel, November 2013
Confidence: medium-high for the 2010 start and 8th-round/Nov-2013 figure (sourced to Israel's own Trade & Economic Office in India, an arm of the Israeli Ministry of Economy); the total final round count and exact date talks went dormant after Nov 2013 were not independently pinned down
Context: Naftali Bennett, then Israel's Minister of Economy, visited India in October 2013 as part of the same push to deepen economic ties.
Reason Reported: Both sides 'struggled over tariffs, standards and access for sensitive products,' per independent trade-policy analysis; no official Indian or Israeli source in this pass gives a single declared 'suspension date' or reason — the dormancy is inferred from the absence of any further round after Nov 2013 until the 2025 relaunch.
Conflicting Claim: A single secondary database (ADB's Asia Regional Integration Center) states talks 'resumed' in March/June 2022 with a target to 'conclude by mid-2022.' This is NOT corroborated by any other source found in this pass (no PIB, MEA, or Israeli-government material references a 2022 round or a 2022 conclusion target), is internally inconsistent in its own date ordering, and directly contradicts the well-corroborated 'decade-long pause' / late-2025 relaunch narrative. Treated as low-confidence and likely a stale or erroneous database entry — see conflicts.
Confidence: medium for the dormancy itself (strong absence-of-evidence + explicit secondary characterization); low confidence on the 2022 claim specifically
Signatories: Piyush Goyal (India, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry) and Nir Barkat (Israel, Minister of Economy and Industry)
TOR Scope per Official Reporting: tariff and non-tariff barrier elimination for goods, investment facilitation, customs procedure simplification, innovation and technology-transfer cooperation, and services-trade norm relaxation
Two Phase Idea:
Finding: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said India and Israel are 'considering implementing their proposed FTA in two phases to ensure early benefits for the trade community of both countries' — an early, faster first phase followed by a fuller agreement.
Specifics: No source in this pass differentiates what specifically sits in phase 1 vs phase 2. Recorded as a stated intention, not a finalized structure.
Date: 2025-11-23 (reporting date)
Confidence: high that the statement was made; low on whether this phasing was ultimately adopted, since both subsequent rounds (Feb and Jul 2026) are described as single-track technical negotiations, not phase-1/phase-2 tracks
Rounds 2026
Round 1
Dates: 2026-02-23 to 2026-02-26
Location: New Delhi
Negotiators:
India: Ajay Bhadoo (Additional Secretary, Dept. of Commerce)
Israel: Yifat Alon Perel (Senior Director, Trade Policy & Agreements, Ministry of Economy and Industry)
Topics: trade in goods, trade in services, rules of origin, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, customs procedures, trade facilitation, intellectual property rights, and digital trade
One source states this round 'coincided with' a PM Modi visit to Israel on 2026-02-25/26, and separately reports Modi called for 'early finalization of an ambitious Free Trade Agreement.' The precise relationship between the Delhi-based technical round and the PM's travel (same trip, separate concurrent track, or a reporting conflation) was not independently confirmed in this pass — recorded as a gap, not asserted as a single unified event.
Confidence: high for round dates/negotiators/topics (multiple official and wire sources agree); medium on the Modi-visit linkage specifically[1][2]
Round 2
Dates: 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-23
Location: New Delhi (Vanijya Bhawan)
Negotiators:
India: Ajay Bhadoo (Additional Secretary, Dept. of Commerce)
Israel: Yifat Alon Perel (Senior Director, Trade Policy & Agreements, Ministry of Economy and Industry)
Topics: trade in goods, trade in services, rules of origin, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, intellectual property rights, customs procedures, trade facilitation, and economic cooperation
Quotes:
Bhadoo: reaffirmed commitment to 'a balanced, comprehensive and mutually beneficial agreement'
Alon Perel: emphasized 'the importance of maintaining momentum towards achieving an ambitious outcome'
Joint Characterization: 'The discussions were constructive and forward-looking, with both sides engaging in detailed technical deliberations aimed at narrowing gaps.'
Confidence: high — corroborated across ANI (wire), The Hawk, and India Shipping News, all independently reporting the same dates/location/negotiators[7][8][9]
Round 3: October 2026 — exact dates not yet announced as of this record's 2026-08-20 access date
Round 4: 'probably the last one by February' 2027
Source of Expectation: Reuven Azar, Israel's Ambassador to India, quoted 2026-08-18: 'We expect to have two more rounds, one in October and probably the last one by February and I think that by then we will know exactly where we stand.'
Reading: This is an ambassador's expectation of when clarity will emerge, not an announced conclusion/signing date. No official Indian or Israeli statement in this pass commits to a signing date.
Azar Additional Context: Azar flagged that bridging market-access gaps is harder than usual because Israel's tariffs are already low and the two economies differ greatly in size; framed 'the greatest potential' as lying in high-tech cooperation rather than traditional goods market access; also referenced 'reciprocal buybacks and cooperation' without elaboration (see unsourced_gaps).
Confidence: high that the quote was made as reported (corroborated by two independent outlets on the same date); the underlying schedule is inherently provisional
Not applicable — there is no concluded agreement to notify under GATT Article XXIV / GATS Article V. Should not be confused with agreements that exist but are unnotified.
Investment
No concluded investment chapter exists. The Terms of Reference (2025-11-20) references 'investment facilitation' as a negotiating objective, and the Nov 2025 India-Israel Business Forum discussed investment interest across fintech/agritech/AI/quantum/pharma/space/defence — but none of this amounts to agreed chapter text.
Skeleton Claim Assessment:
Skeleton Claim: The netcup skeleton asserts the Investment chapter 'follows India's 2016 Model BIT framework with national treatment, MFN, FET, expropriation' and describes an 'ISDS pathway under Indian carve-out structure,' alongside a claimed separate 'sovereign-cooperation framework' for defence/ag-tech/R&D investment.
Verified Finding: UNVERIFIED and almost certainly overreach: no source in this pass — official or secondary — describes any agreed investment-chapter text, because none exists at this negotiating stage (2 of an expected 4 rounds held). A chapter cannot simultaneously be 'under negotiation' (confirmed) and have a settled NT/MFN/FET/expropriation/ISDS structure (the skeleton's claim). This mirrors the same category of error flagged in the India-EFTA TEPA record's skeleton (fabricated specificity for an unconcluded/mischaracterized chapter), and is treated the same way: excluded from confirmed facts.
Confidence: high that the claim is unverifiable as stated; this is a negative/absence finding, not proof the eventual chapter won't resemble the 2016 Model BIT — India has in fact used 2016 Model BIT language as a starting position in other recent negotiations, which may be where the skeleton's claim originated, but no source confirms it was applied or agreed here
Rules of origin
No concluded Rules of Origin chapter exists. 'Rules of origin' appears as a negotiating-agenda topic in both round 1 (Feb 2026) and round 2 (Jul 2026), alongside SPS, TBT, customs procedures, and trade facilitation — confirming RoO is ON the table, not that it is settled.
Skeleton Claim: The netcup skeleton states RoO 'follows dual-qualification template (CTH + 35-40% RVC)' with 'diamond ROO + defence-tech ROO' as distinctive items.
Verified Finding: UNVERIFIED: no source in this pass gives any specific RoO formula, percentage, or product-specific rule for this prospective agreement — consistent with the fact that RoO negotiations are still in progress. Excluded from confirmed facts rather than repeated.
Confidence: high that the specific CTH+35-40%RVC figure is unverifiable at this stage
Finding: Defence is NOT listed among the negotiating chapters/topics in either the Terms of Reference summary or the official round-1 / round-2 topic lists (goods, services, RoO, SPS, TBT, customs, trade facilitation, IPR, digital trade/economic cooperation). Instead, India-Israel defence cooperation runs on a separate, parallel bilateral track: a Joint Working Group (JWG) on Defence Cooperation held its 17th meeting in Tel Aviv in November 2025, alongside a standalone MoU on Defence Cooperation — distinct from, and not a chapter of, the FTA Terms of Reference.
Caveat: One India-Israel Business Forum readout (Nov 2025) did list 'defence' alongside fintech/agritech/AI/quantum/pharma/space as a bilateral opportunity area in general conversation — but that is a business-forum discussion context, not a negotiating-chapter listing, and does not contradict the finding that defence sits outside the FTA's formal chapter scope.
Confidence: high on the structural separation (JWG/MoU vs. FTA ToR are named as distinct instruments across MEA's own bilateral brief); consistent with the global norm that defence procurement is not typically a tariff-FTA subject
Finding: Diamonds/precious stones are the historical anchor of India-Israel trade (bilateral trade began at ~USD 200 million in 1992, dominated by diamonds via the Tel Aviv diamond exchange and Surat's cutting-and-polishing industry) and remain the single largest commodity line in both directions today: per HS-code data covering April-November 2025 (FY2025-26, partial year), 'natural/cultured pearls & precious stones' was India's #1 export to Israel (USD 416.62 million) AND #1 import from Israel (USD 316.24 million) — i.e., rough/polished diamonds flow both ways between the two countries' cutting industries. The MEA's official bilateral brief also lists diamonds as one of three primary historical trade sectors (with petroleum and chemicals).
Confidence: high — HS-code figures from IBEF (an official Ministry of Commerce-backed trade-promotion body) corroborate MEA's qualitative listing
Finding: Electronics/electrical machinery is the #2 commodity line in both directions in the same FY2025-26 (Apr-Nov 2025) HS-code data: 'electrical machinery & equipment' — India's exports to Israel USD 243.62 million; India's imports from Israel USD 270.28 million. Separately, a full-year FY2024-25 sector summary lists 'electronics' among India's imports from Israel (within a USD 1.5-1.6 billion import basket alongside diamonds, fertilizers, and machinery), and MEA's brief names 'electronics' and 'high-tech products' as growth areas the relationship is 'expanding into.'
Confidence: high for the HS-code figures; medium for the qualitative 'expanding into' framing (directional, not quantified)
Finding: Agricultural technology cooperation is the most institutionally developed part of the relationship, running well outside (and well ahead of) the FTA talks via the Indo-Israel Agricultural Cooperation Project: 43 Centers of Excellence (CoE) approved, 35 currently operational, covering flowers, vegetables, fruits, and beekeeping, under a joint work plan. Israel's agriculture minister (Avi Dichter) briefed India's commerce minister on a 25-year food-security roadmap and seed-improvement/water-reuse innovation during the Nov 2025 visit that also produced the FTA Terms of Reference; that same visit included site visits to drip-irrigation and precision-agriculture technology (Netafim) and a kibbutz sustainable-agriculture model. One source describes the Agricultural Cooperation Project as advancing into a 'third phase,' announced at a Vibrant Gujarat Summit, though the exact date of that phase-3 declaration was not pinned down in this pass.
Confidence: high for the CoE counts and Nov 2025 visit detail (official MEA/PIB sourcing); lower/undated for the 'third phase' claim (secondary source, no date recovered)
Finding: Beyond the three requested sectors, official and business-forum sources repeatedly name a similar cluster of 'future-facing' sectors as the relationship's real growth story (as distinct from tariff-line goods trade, which both sides describe as structurally limited by Israel's small market size and already-low tariffs): fintech, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cybersecurity, machine learning, pharmaceuticals, space, water technology, and — per Israel's ambassador — 'high-tech cooperation' generally, which he called the area of 'greatest potential.'
Trade flows
Multiple non-reconcilable trade-value series were found for India-Israel merchandise trade. Per the provenance rule, they are recorded separately below and NOT blended into one number. They differ in fiscal-year coverage (FY2024-25 vs FY2025-26 vs partial FY2025-26), and even within the same fiscal year, official-adjacent sources disagree by ~USD 100-150 million.
India-Israel total merchandise trade, FY2025-26 (latest full-year figure found) — Reported by ANI (wire), corroborated independently by The Hawk and India Shipping News, all covering the Dept. of Commerce's second-round (Jul 2026) release[7][8][9]
Measure
Value
Total Trade
USD 3.93 billion
Basis: Indian fiscal year (April 2025-March 2026), USD, goods · accessed 2026-08-20
This is the LATEST same-series full-year figure located in this pass, and is the record's primary headline trade figure for that reason. It was NOT independently cross-checked against a directly-fetched primary PIB/Dept. of Commerce page in this pass (the specific PIB PRID for the round-2 release could not be located/fetched — see unsourced_gaps); it rests on triangulation across three independent wire/secondary outlets reporting the same number on the same date, which is reasonably strong but not primary-source confirmation.
One outlet covering the SAME round-2 event (Swarajya) instead cited 'USD 3.62 billion, FY2024-25' — the prior period's figure — in what appears to be an un-updated reuse of the round-1 boilerplate rather than a genuine second data point. Flagged in conflicts.
India-Israel total merchandise trade, FY2024-25 — per PIB (round 1 release) — Press Information Bureau, Government of India[1]
Measure
Value
Total Trade
USD 3.62 billion
Basis: Indian fiscal year (April 2024-March 2025), USD, goods · accessed 2026-08-20
India-Israel total merchandise trade, FY2024-25 — per MEA bilateral relations brief — Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India[3]
Measure
Value
Total Trade
USD 3.75 billion (document's own headline figure)
India Exports to Israel
USD 2.1 billion
India Imports From Israel
USD 1.6 billion
Basis: Indian fiscal year (April 2024-March 2025), USD, goods · accessed 2026-08-20
The document's own component figures (2.1 + 1.6 = 3.7) round to 3.7, not exactly 3.75 as separately headlined — a minor internal rounding inconsistency, not a major discrepancy. The document also states the FY2024-25 figure 'fell... due to regional security issues and trade disruptions,' implying a higher prior-year base, which was not independently quantified in this pass.
India-Israel total merchandise trade, FY2024-25 — per independent trade-policy analysis, with export/import commodity framing — BasisPointInsight (Ajay Srivastava) — secondary analysis[13]
Basis: Indian fiscal year (April 2024-March 2025), USD, goods · accessed 2026-08-20
Internally consistent (2.1 + 1.5 = 3.6) and agrees with PIB's 3.62B within rounding; differs from MEA's 3.75B/1.6B-import figure by ~USD 100 million on the import side specifically.
India-Israel trade, FY2025-26, partial year (April-November 2025) with HS-code commodity detail — India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF) — Ministry of Commerce-backed trade-promotion body[16]
Measure
Value
India Exports to Israel Partial
USD 1.45 billion
India Imports From Israel Partial
USD 1.12 billion
Israel Rank As Export Destination for India
40th
Israel Rank As Import Source for India
50th
Basis: Indian fiscal year 2025-26, partial (through November 2025 only — NOT a full-year figure), USD, goods, by HS chapter · accessed 2026-08-20
NOT comparable to the full-year series above without annualizing — retained separately because it is the only source in this pass with product-level (HS-chapter) granularity, used for the sectors.diamonds and sectors.electronics findings.
Historical bilateral trade trajectory, 1992-2013 (pre-dormancy) — Israel Trade & Economic Office, Embassy of Israel in India (Israeli Ministry of Economy-affiliated)[15]
Measure
Value
1992
USD 200 million (primarily diamonds)
2011 Peak
USD 5.19 billion
2012
USD 4.44 billion (a 14.3% decrease attributed to the global recession)
Shows bilateral trade was materially HIGHER in 2011 (USD 5.19B) than any current-era figure in this record (USD 3.6-3.93B) — i.e., trade has not yet recovered to its 2011 peak even 15 years later. Useful context for the negotiation's stated rationale ('untapped trade potential').
Milestones
1992
India and Israel establish full diplomatic relations; bilateral trade begins at approximately USD 200 million, dominated by diamonds.
Confidence: high
2010
India and Israel launch FTA negotiations (first attempt).
Confidence: medium-high
2011
Bilateral trade peaks at USD 5.19 billion — a level not yet matched again as of this record's access date.
Confidence: high
2012 to 2013
Multiple further negotiating rounds held; the 8th round is held in Israel in November 2013.
Confidence: medium-high
2013-10
Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett visits India to advance economic ties.
Confidence: high
~2014 to ~2025
Negotiations lie dormant for roughly a decade; no further formal round is documented in this pass until the 2025 relaunch. (One low-confidence secondary database claims a 2022 restart/target — not corroborated elsewhere; see conflicts.)
Confidence: medium (dormancy itself); low (any 2022 activity)
2025-11-20
Piyush Goyal (India) and Nir Barkat (Israel) sign Terms of Reference in Tel Aviv, formally relaunching FTA negotiations.
Confidence: high
2025-11-20/21
Same visit: Goyal meets Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter and Economy Minister Nir Barkat; tours Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, Mobileye, and Kibbutz Ramat Rachel; India-Israel Business Forum held.
Confidence: high
2025-11-23
Goyal publicly floats a two-phase FTA implementation approach (early first phase, fuller agreement later).
Confidence: high (statement made); unclear if adopted (see negotiation_history.relaunch.two_phase_idea)
2025-11 (specific date not confirmed)
17th meeting of the India-Israel Joint Working Group on Defence Cooperation held in Tel Aviv; a separate MoU on Defence Cooperation is signed — outside the FTA track.
Confidence: high on the meeting/MoU occurring; exact date within November not pinned down
2026-02-23 to 2026-02-26
Round 1 of FTA negotiations held in New Delhi, covering goods, services, RoO, SPS, TBT, customs, trade facilitation, IPR, and digital trade.
Confidence: high
2026-02-25/26
PM Modi visits Israel and calls for 'early finalization of an ambitious Free Trade Agreement'; exact relationship to the concurrent Delhi-based round 1 not fully clarified in this pass.
Confidence: medium
2026-07-20 to 2026-07-23
Round 2 of FTA negotiations held in New Delhi (Vanijya Bhawan); both sides describe talks as 'constructive and forward-looking,' aimed at 'narrowing gaps.'
Confidence: high
2026-08-18
Israel's Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, publicly states two more rounds are expected — October 2026 and 'probably the last one by February' 2027 — after which both sides expect to 'know exactly where we stand.'
Confidence: high
~2026-10
Round 3 expected (exact dates not yet announced as of 2026-08-20).
Confidence: medium — stated expectation, not a confirmed schedule
~2027-02
Round 4 expected — described as possibly the last round before clarity on the deal's shape.
Confidence: medium — stated expectation, not a confirmed schedule or conclusion date
Sources disagree
Recorded exactly as the registry states each disagreement — the conflicting values, the organisations behind them, and how this record handles it.
Sources disagree
Skeleton Flattens Two Distinct Negotiation Eras
The netcup skeleton's 'on-and-off since 2010' framing does not distinguish the original 2010-2013 negotiation (≥8 rounds, then dormant for roughly a decade) from the entirely new negotiation relaunched via a fresh Terms of Reference on 2025-11-20. These are, in substance, two different negotiations separated by a ~10-year gap, not one continuous on-and-off process.
How this record handles it: This record splits the history into negotiation_history.phase_1_original_attempt, .dormancy, and .relaunch, plus a distinct rounds_2026 array for the current process.
Sources disagree
Investment and Roo Chapter Fabrication
The skeleton asserts specific, settled legal content for the Investment chapter (2016 Model BIT terms: NT/MFN/FET/expropriation, ISDS carve-out) and the RoO chapter (CTH + 35-40% RVC) as if these were concluded/agreed. No such text can exist: the agreement has not been concluded, and 'rules of origin' plus (implicitly) investment topics are explicitly listed as still-under-negotiation agenda items in both the Feb 2026 and Jul 2026 rounds.
How this record handles it: Both claims are excluded from confirmed facts and recorded only as unverified skeleton assertions in investment.skeleton_claim_assessment and roo.skeleton_claim_assessment.
Sources disagree
Defence Scope Mischaracterization
The skeleton folds defence into the FTA's Goods chapter ('defence + dual-use technology' as a principal flow) and Investment chapter ('defence + ag-tech + R&D investment flow'). Official sourcing instead shows defence cooperation running on a parallel bilateral track (a Joint Working Group with its own MoU, last meeting Nov 2025) that is distinct from, and not listed among, the FTA's actual negotiating-chapter topics in either round held so far.
How this record handles it: sectors.defence records the corrected finding: defence is very likely OUT of the FTA's formal negotiating scope, run instead via the JWG/MoU channel — though no single source explicitly states an intentional 'carve-out,' so this is an inference from consistent absence across all round-topic lists plus the existence of a named parallel mechanism, not a direct quote saying 'defence is excluded.'
Sources disagree
Trade Figure Multiple Series and One Stale Reuse
At least four distinct FY2024-25-or-FY2025-26 total-trade figures exist (PIB USD 3.62B for FY24-25; MEA USD 3.75B for FY24-25; BasisPointInsight USD 3.6B for FY24-25; and USD 3.93B for FY25-26 per three wire/secondary outlets covering the Jul 2026 round). A fifth outlet (Swarajya), covering that same Jul 2026 round, cites the older USD 3.62B/FY24-25 figure — most likely an un-updated reuse of round-1 boilerplate rather than a genuine independent data point for the same event as the other three outlets covering it.
How this record handles it: All series retained separately in trade.series; USD 3.93B/FY2025-26 is used as the headline 'latest full-year figure' per the three-outlet corroboration, with the Swarajya discrepancy flagged rather than silently dropped.
Sources disagree
Adb Aric 2022 Claim Unreliable
ADB's Asia Regional Integration Center database states talks 'resumed' in 2022 with a mid-2022 conclusion target — internally inconsistent in its own date ordering (a 'March 2022 target' appearing to postdate a 'June 2022 resumption' in the same entry) and uncorroborated by any Indian or Israeli source found in this pass, all of which instead describe a continuous dormancy from 2013/2014 until the Nov 2025 relaunch.
How this record handles it: Recorded as a low-confidence, likely-stale secondary database entry in negotiation_history.dormancy.conflicting_claim; not incorporated into the main timeline.
Not yet verifiable
What the registry could not source, listed exactly as it states it — not gaps filled from memory or inference.
The exact date negotiations went dormant after the 8th round (Nov 2013) and any official reason given by either government for the pause — only an analyst's general 'tariffs, standards, sensitive-product access' characterization was found, not a primary-source statement.
Total number of rounds held in the ORIGINAL 2010-2013 negotiation beyond the confirmed 8th (Nov 2013) — whether any 9th+ round occurred before the pause is unconfirmed.
A working, current Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry (gov.il) page giving Israel's own official FTA-status framing — attempts to fetch native gov.il pages in this pass did not return usable content; Israeli-side sourcing in this record instead rests on Israeli officials quoted via Indian PIB releases and wire services (Alon Perel, Barkat, Ambassador Azar), which is credible but not the same as a direct primary Israeli-government page.
The specific content/substance of 'reciprocal buybacks and cooperation,' referenced by Israel's ambassador (2026-08-18) as a discussion area, without elaboration.
A precise breakdown of what sits in 'phase 1' vs 'phase 2' of Goyal's Nov 2025 two-phase implementation idea — and whether that phasing concept was carried forward into the actual round 1/round 2 talks (both of which appear to be single-track, not phase-split, based on their topic lists).
The exact date of the '17th meeting' of the India-Israel Joint Working Group on Defence Cooperation within November 2025, and the specific content of the accompanying Defence Cooperation MoU.
The exact date the 'third phase' of the Indo-Israel Agricultural Cooperation Project was announced at a Vibrant Gujarat Summit (source did not specify a year).
Any product-line-level detail for diamonds, electronics, or agri-tech goods under a FUTURE tariff schedule — none can exist yet since no goods schedule has been agreed; all sector figures in this record are CURRENT bilateral trade/commodity data, not FTA commitments.
A directly-fetched primary PIB/Dept. of Commerce page specifically for the round-2 (Jul 2026) conclusion — this record relies on wire-service (ANI) and secondary-outlet corroboration for that round's trade figure and quotes, not a directly fetched PIB URL (attempts to enumerate PIB's release listing did not surface it in this pass).
One search-result title (DD News/ddnews.gov.in) claimed 'India ranks as Israel's second-largest Asian trading partner in merchandise' — this could not be verified because the page's robots.txt blocked fetching in this pass; NOT included as a confirmed fact for that reason.