International treaty

UK-India CETA Chapter 1: Initial Provisions and General Definitions

Text of chapter 1 of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and India.

• From: Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and Department for Business and Trade
• Published: 24 July 2025
• Last updated: 15 July 2026
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  1. 15 July 2026

     Page updated to reflect that the agreement entered in to force on 15 July 2026.

  2. 24 July 2025

     First published.

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This chapter establishes a free trade area between the UK and India and provides for an appropriate set of legal relationships between the agreement and other international agreements. It sets out a series of definitions that will be used across the agreement and also includes a provision that sets out the interaction between this agreement and the Windsor Framework.