India chairs the 13th ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement Joint Committee meeting in New Delhi from July 6 to 10, 2026, with Sub-Committees on customs, market access and rules of origin given time-bound deliverables.
India hosted the 13th Meeting of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA) Joint Committee and related Sub-Committee meetings at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi, from July 6 to 10, 2026, in a hybrid format, to review progress of negotiations under the ongoing AITIGA Review. The Joint Committee meeting itself was held on July 7, 2026, and was co-chaired by Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Nitin Kumar Yadav, and Malaysia’s Deputy Secretary General (Trade), Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry, Mastura Ahmad Mustafa. Delegations from all ten ASEAN Member States participated: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. Meetings of three of the eight Sub-Committees under the AITIGA Joint Committee are being held on the sidelines, covering the Sub-Committee on Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation (SC-CPTF), the Sub-Committee on National Treatment and Market Access (SC-NTMA) and the Sub-Committee on Rules of Origin (SC-ROO).
The Joint Committee provided strategic guidance to the three Sub-Committees and urged them to expedite finalisation of outstanding chapters under the AITIGA Review, assigning time-bound deliverables and encouraging work towards tangible outcomes within agreed timelines. ASEAN accounts for around 11% of India’s global trade, and bilateral trade between India and ASEAN reached USD 128 billion in 2025-26.
Source: Press Information Bureau (PIB)
