14 PLI sectors protected under trade agreement between India and UK

The India-UK CETA, signed on Thursday, provides for gradual tariff reduction on India’s strategically important products.

The India-UK free trade agreement has provisions to protect the country’s 14 production-linked incentive (PLI) sectors such as electronics, mobile manufacturing, white goods, drugs intermediaries, auto components, specialty steel, solar modules and drones for five to 10 years, commerce ministry officials said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UK PM Keir Starmer signed the free trade agreement between the UK and India on July 24. (PMO)

The India-UK comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA), signed on Thursday, provides for gradual tariff reduction on India’s strategically important products, particularly those where domestic capacity is being built under flagship initiatives such as the Make