‘Mother of all deals’: EU and India sign free trade agreement

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/27/eu-and-india-sign-free-trade-agreement?CMP%3Dshare_btn_url

26 Comments

  1. BannedAgain12341 on

    So who’s getting tariff this time ? India or EU ?

    Hope this deal brings some peace to the world, there’s too much unrest these days.

    EU will get a lot of medicines, textile at reasonable rate and we’ll get nice wines & cars, perfect deal !!

  2. Ok_Freedom_6864 on

    Finally. Free trade is the only way to global prosperity. The value of goods and services should always stand on their own two feet, or four.

  3. One really needs to hand it to trump. He is advancing global trade massively. Just not for America.

  4. TroubleStandard56 on

    Trump has created more trade deals than anyone else, except that all of them are between other Nations whilst the USA population get tariffed.
    If the man is a stable genius, I ain’t seeing it.

  5. DJT doing more for international ´non-US´ diplomacy than anyone else (by threatening to burn the world down) 🙄

  6. Royal-Hunter3892 on

    Now Trump gonna say

    “I don’t care what India does with EU. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care.”

  7. Tariffs will be cut to zero on Indian marine goods, leather and ‍textile products, chemicals, rubber, base metals and gems ‍and jewellery.

    Lower prices for EU goods in India – over 90% of tariffs (taxes on imports) will be cut, which could double EU exports to India.

    Faster shipping and simpler customs – sending products will be easier.

    EU companies get extra protection for their ideas, logos, and inventions (intellectual property).

    Access to India’s services market – like banks and shipping companies.

    Small EU businesses get special support to sell in India.

    More export of labour-intensive Indian goods, including apparel and footwear.

    Might be more benifits here and there, but this is what I got from the EU website.

  8. The US’s biggest trade partner, EU and the #2 trade partner, Canada and moving away from the US and towards India and China. The future US export will be hit. Oh well.

  9. Somebody give Trump the Nobel peace price already! He has united Europe with India and China for god’s sake!

  10. The Art of The Deal

    Chapter One: Strong arming your allies into excluding you from the deal.

  11. GuaranteeOdd3384 on

    We have lost the European Union to deepest, darkest India. Modi is a great guy, but he has problems. THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS. He’s my friend, by the way. If I were the President, this would have never happened. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  12. > Modi emphasised that it represented about a third of global trade, calling it the “biggest free trade deal in history”.

    Someone is about to lose their shit on social media in about two seconds

  13. “Europe made a bad deal with India so we must have *enter random country here* for security” – Trump

  14. HELMET_OF_CECH on

    I know everyone is going crazy and wants to attribute this to Trump and the author of the Guardian (who is Trump hating) wants to do the same, but India has been far more open to doing more agreements and FTAs since COVID-19 which had a serious impact on the country, as it did many others.

  15. The-Board-Chairman on

    I’m like 35% sure that Putin and Trump are time travellers sent back in time and that the existence of a united Europe is somehow critical for the continued existence of the human species at some point in the future.