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India has protected the involvement of home farmers and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) by not extending immoderate work concessions connected products crossed respective sectors, including cultivation items specified arsenic dairy, arsenic good arsenic chocolates, gold, silver, jewellery, footwear and sports goods, nether the trade pact with Oman.
The pact was signed connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) successful Muscat.
The Commerce Ministry said to safeguard its interest, delicate products person been kept successful the exclusion class by India without offering immoderate concessions.
It includes "agricultural products, including dairy, tea, coffee, rubber and baccy products; golden and metallic bullion, jewellery; different labour-intensive products specified arsenic footwear, sports goods and scrap of galore basal metals," the Ministry said.
Further for the products of export involvement to Oman and which are delicate to India, the connection is mostly a Tariff-Rate Quota (TRQ)-based tariff liberalisation.
Under the TRQ mechanism, India has extended work concessions up to a specified quota, beyond which the mean import work volition apply. Goods nether this class see dates, marbles and petrochemical products.
An authoritative said Oman has allowed Indian firms to import marble blocks, which is simply a banned export point successful the Gulf nation.
As per the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the yearly quota for work escaped dates volition beryllium 2,000 tonnes.
