India, Australia to finalise early harvest agreement in next 30 days: Goyal

India and Australia had set a tight deadline of concluding an early harvest agreement - a precursor to FTA or CECA by December 25, as more work needed to be done towards the deal

India and Australia have set up an 'aggressive’ 30-day timeline to finalise the early harvest agreement (EHA), before firming up a full-fledged free trade agreement between both countries, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.

“I can assure you that we have a very strong partnership in the making, which we will finalise over the next 30 days. That's the kind of aggressive timelines that have been set for our teams today. I'm quite confident we will come up with some very exciting news for businesses in both countries,”Goyal said after a meeting with his Australian counterpart Dan Tehan,