{"id":191935,"date":"2022-05-31T00:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=191935"},"modified":"2022-05-31T00:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:50:44","slug":"romania-hopes-bilateral-trade-with-india-to-cross-usd-1bn-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/31\/romania-hopes-bilateral-trade-with-india-to-cross-usd-1bn-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania hopes bilateral trade with India to cross USD 1bn in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kolkata, May 30 (PTI) Romania is hopeful that its bilateral trade with India will cross USD 1 billion in 2022 despite geopolitical tensions across the globe, a senior diplomat of the European country said here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bilateral trade between the two countries was nearly USD 900 million in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eastern European country is expecting that the geopolitical tensions arising out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict will not have any adverse impact on the trade between India and Romania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The bilateral trade in 2021 was nearly USD 900 million, and in the current year (2022), the two-way trade is expected to cross USD 1 billion,&#8221; Ambassador of Romania to India Daniela Mariana Sezonov Tane said on the sidelines of a programme organised by the Bharat Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2021, the trade balance was in favour of India by around USD 300 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economic secretary of the Romanian Embassy Ionut Mircea Viziru said a free trade agreement between India and European Union could boost trade and investment between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal had on May 6 said India will be able to conclude a free trade agreement with the European Union by next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The diplomat said Romania was keen on defence cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking about cultural exchange, Tane said an MoU will soon be signed between Calcutta University and Babe?-Bolyai University in Romania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata, May 30 (PTI) Romania is hopeful that its bilateral trade with India will cross USD 1 billion in 2022 despite geopolitical tensions across the globe, a senior diplomat of the European country said here on Monday. The bilateral trade between the two countries was nearly USD 900 million in 2021. The eastern European country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-191935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}