"The feasibility study of the free trade zone agreement with India showed that the overall GDP increase of the bloc’s member states could come to $1.5 billion in the short term and $2.7 billion in the longer-term outlook," Nikishina said during a business breakfast called "EAEU-India: Strategic Partnership."
She added that the free trade zone enables extremely important competitive advantages through "qualitative change of the terms of entering the markets of our countries." According to Nikishina, SPIEF is an important element of building relations with India, with a research group focused on the possibilities of signing the Russia-India agreement having been created during the 2015 forum.
"For each of the six countries, the five member states and India, economic modeling at the very least shows serious advantages provided by signing the free trade agreement," Nikishina added.
The EAEU is an international organization comprising Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It aims to encourage regional economic integration through the free movement of goods, services, and people within the union.
SPIEF, which kicked off on Thursday and will continue through Saturday, is a major global platform for communication between business representatives and for discussing crucial economic issues. The Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency is the official media partner of the forum.
