India pulled out of RCEP

BANGKOK: India said Monday (Nov 4) it would not join a sprawling
Asian trade pact, raising fears over how domestic producers would be
hit, in a major blow for what could be the world’s largest trade deal.

The
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was meant to account
for 30 per cent of global GDP and loop in half of the world’s people.

But India dug in over concerns about