International treaty

UK-India CETA title page, table of contents and preamble (web version)

Published 24 July 2025

Title

COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC AND TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA

Table of contents

Chapter 1 - Initial Provisions and General Definitions Chapter 2 Trade in Goods

• Annex 2A (Schedules of Tariff Commitments for Goods)
• Appendix 2A-a (Schedule of Tariff Commitments of India)
• Appendix 2A-b (Schedule of Tariff Commitments of the United Kingdom)

Chapter 3 - Rules of Origin

• Annex 3A (Product Specific Rules of Origin) Annex 3B (Origin Declaration Template)
• Annex 3C (Certificate of Origin Template)
• Annex 3D (Framework for the Authentication Process of Origin Declarations)
• Annex 3E (Data Protection and Processing of Personal Information)

Chapter 4 - Trade Remedies

Chapter 5 - Customs and Trade Facilitation

Chapter 6 - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Chapter 7 - Technical Barriers to Trade

• Annex 7A (Product Sectors)

Chapter 8 - Trade in Services

• Annex 8A (Professional Services)
• Annex 8B (Schedules of Specific Commitments)
  • Schedule of India
  • Schedule of the United Kingdom
• Annex    8C    (Most-Favoured-Nation    Treatment    Sectoral Coverage)
  • Schedule of India
  • Schedule of the United Kingdom

Chapter 9 - Financial Services

• Annex 9A (Schedules of Specific Commitments on Financial Services)
  • Schedule of India
  • Schedule of the United Kingdom

Chapter 10 - Temporary Movement of Natural Persons

• Annex 10A (Schedules of Specific Commitments on Temporary Movement of Natural Persons)
• Schedule of India
• Schedule of the United Kingdom Chapter 11 Telecommunications

Chapter 12 - Digital Trade

Chapter 13 - Intellectual Property Rights

• Annex 13A (Geographical Indication Specification)
• Annex 13B (Protected Geographical Indications for Wines, Spirits, Agricultural Products, and Foodstuffs)
• Annex 13C (Geographical Indications for Goods Other than Wines, Spirits, Agricultural Products, and Foodstuffs Protected in India as Goods of Handicrafts, Natural Goods and Manufactured Goods)

Chapter 14 - Innovation

Chapter 15 - Government Procurement

• Annex 15A (Government Procurement Schedules)
  • Schedule of India
  • Schedule of the United Kingdom

Chapter 16 - Competition and Consumer Protection Policy

Chapter 17 - State-Owned Enterprises

Chapter 18 - Subsidies

Chapter 19 - Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Chapter 20     Labour

Chapter 21 - Environment

Chapter 22 - Trade and Development Cooperation Chapter 23      Trade and Gender Equality

Chapter 24 - Good Regulatory Practice

Chapter 25 - Transparency

Chapter 26 - Anti-Corruption

Chapter 27 - Administrative and Institutional Provisions

Chapter 28 - General Provisions and Exceptions

Chapter 29 - Dispute Settlement

• Annex 29A (Rules of Procedure)
• Appendix 29A-a (Indicative Timetable for Panel Proceedings)
• Appendix 29A-b (Confidential Information)
• Appendix 29A-c (Declaration of Non-Disclosure)
• Annex 29B (Code of Conduct)
• Appendix 29B-a (Initial Disclosure Statement)

Chapter 30  Final Provisions

Preamble

The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (“the United Kingdom”) and the Government of the Republic of India (“India”), hereinafter referred to individually as a “Party” or jointly as “the Parties”,

REINFORCING the longstanding bonds of friendship, cooperation and people-to-people linkages between them;

BUILDING on their longstanding and strong partnership based on common principles and values, and their important economic and trade relationship;

SEEKING to establish a clear, transparent, and predictable legal framework that supports further expansion of trade, to enhance the competitiveness of their economies, and to eliminate, and avoid the creation of, barriers between them;

ACKNOWLEDGING the important role and contribution of business in expanding trade between the Parties and the need to further promote and facilitate cooperation and utilisation of the greater business opportunities provided by this Agreement;

EMPHASISING the need to support the growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises by enhancing their ability to participate in and benefit from the opportunities created by this Agreement;

RECOGNISING the importance of ensuring certainty and reducing barriers for service suppliers of the Parties by agreeing to commitments which will expand trade in services and facilitate temporary movement of natural persons between the Parties;

RECOGNISING the interaction between trade and innovation, and the contribution of both to economic growth, and seeking to expand and deepen their bilateral cooperation in this area;

NOTING the importance of facilitating new opportunities for businesses and consumers through digital trade;

AIMING to enhance participation in mutual recognition frameworks between the Parties or their authorities;

AFFIRMING the importance of development and inclusive economic growth, including in increasing the ability of forest dwellers in India, local communities and socially and educationally disadvantaged groups to access and fully benefit from the opportunities created by this Agreement, taking into account the context, challenges, and capabilities of each Party;

SEEKING to increase women’s access to and ability to fully benefit from the opportunities created by this Agreement, including with respect to women from rural areas, marginalised communities, and economically vulnerable backgrounds;

RESOLVING to promote transparency, good governance, and the rule of law;

RECOGNISING their right to regulate and to preserve the flexibility of the Parties to set legislative and regulatory priorities, in particular, the need to protect national security and legitimate public welfare objectives such as health (including public health), labour rights, safety, food security, environmental protection (including climate change) and conservation of exhaustible natural resources, integrity and stability of the financial system, and public morals, in accordance with the rights and obligations provided in this Agreement;

BUILDING on their respective rights and obligations under the WTO Agreement and other international agreements relating to matters covered by this Agreement to which both Parties are party;

ACKNOWLEDGING the need for a mutually beneficial trade agreement that encourages trade flows to the economic benefit of both the Parties;

AIMING to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of their economies and to expand trade between the Parties;

HAVE AGREED as follows: