Ministry for phased opening up of the aviation sector

New Delhi: India will seek clarifications regarding the proposed sensitive list of trade items submitted by Asean at the next round of negotiations slated to be held in Jakarta from November 16 to 18. The trade bloc intends to undertake phased liberalisation of the items on this list by 2015-16.
Meanwhile, the Prime Ministers Trade and Economic Relations Committee is scheduled to meet this week to take a view on the open sky policy for Asean, which the commerce ministry favours.
However, the civil aviation ministry wants a phased opening up of the aviation sector. It contends that airlines of Asean member countries like Malaysia and Singapore are well established and Indian airlines cannot compete with them.
06/11/06 Monica Gupta/Business Standard

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