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Britain and India agreed to a trade deal on Tuesday, strengthening economic ties between two of the world’s largest economies amid President Trump’s upheaval of the global trade system, the New York Times reported. The deal, which the British government said would increase bilateral trade by 25.5 billion pounds ($34 billion), comes three years after the negotiations began. Intense talks to finalize the outstanding issues took place last week between Jonathan Reynolds, Britain’s business and trade secretary, and Piyush Goyal, India’s commerce minister.
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India has proposed zero tariffs on steel, auto components and pharmaceuticals on a reciprocal basis up to a certain quantity of imports in its trade negotiations with the U.S., Bloomberg News reported. Beyond this threshold, imported industrial goods would attract the regular level of duties. The offer was made by Indian trade officials visiting Washington late last month to expedite negotiations on a bilateral trade deal expected by fall this year.
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In a ruling that could have far-reaching consequences for the country's insolvency resolution regime, India's Supreme Court has struck down JSW Steel's acquisition of Bhushan Power & Steel (BPSL), reopening a deal that was closed and paid for three years ago, the Economic Times of India reported. The judgment has raised concerns over the sanctity and finality of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), and that global financial investors may stay out of the distressed asset market due to the lack of legal certainty.
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India's top court on Friday rejected JSW Steel's resolution plan to acquire Bhushan Power and Steel four years after the takeover was completed, and ordered the liquidation of the debt-ridden firm, two lawyers involved in the case said, Reuters reported. The insolvency administrator and the lenders panel, which ran the insolvency process, failed to discharge their duties in line with the law, one of the lawyers said, citing the Supreme Court's verbal order. The lawyers spoke on the condition of anonymity as they are not authorised to speak to the media.
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The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Bengaluru on Thursday once again deferred its order in a petition seeking initiation of insolvency proceedings against hyperlocal delivery platform Dunzo, BarAndBench.com reported. This is the third time the tribunal has postponed pronouncing the order. A coram of Judicial Member Sunil Kumar Aggarwal and Technical Member Radha Krishna Sreepada cited time constraints, stating: “We have been sitting till 5:30 PM, we have not been able to finalise the order.
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The escalation of the tariff war in April will aggravate stress for MSMEs particularly entities in the sectors where the impact of the tariff war is negative, said credit rating and research firm India Ratings and Research in a statement on Tuesday, FinancialExpress.com reported. Analysing 1,898 listed and unlisted MSMEs and 1,055 mid-corporates (MCs), the research firm said MCs have a greater cushion against unanticipated financial shocks with only 11 per cent of them under stress in comparison to MSMEs with 23 per cent of them being stressed.
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