India seeks free trade with EEU

Russia’s industry and trade minister Denis Manturov said he hoped for a soonest deal on free trade between India and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).

The minister was speaking at a plenary meeting of Innoprom, a major industrial trade fair underway in Russia’s Yekaterinburg.

"I hope that we will soon be able to implement the idea of an agreement on free trade between India and EEU member states, which will deepen our trade and economic relations," Sputnik cited Manturov as saying.

Innoprom is the annual industrial trade fair led by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. The main goal of Innoprom is to unite the representatives of largest Russian and foreign companies, small and medium-sized innovative businesses, financial institutions, government, scientists and experts in order to support implementing innovative projects, commercialization of latest technologies and developments in the Russian industry.