Anupriya Patel, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, along with Pan Sorasak, Minister of Commerce, Cambodia co-chaired the 19th ASEAN-India Economic Ministers’ meeting.

New Delhi: Economic Ministers from all the 10 ASEAN countries have noted that the trade and economic relations between ASEAN and India are starting to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the two-way trade between ASEAN and India reached $91.5 billion in 2021 increasing by 39.2 per cent year-on-year.
Anupriya Patel, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, along with Pan Sorasak, Minister of Commerce, Cambodia co-chaired the 19th ASEAN-India Economic Ministers’ meeting held on Friday in Siem Reap City, Cambodia. Economic Ministers or their representatives from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam attended the meeting.
They also took note of the recommendations made by ASEAN India Business Council (AIBC) to enhance the ASEAN India economic partnership and the activities undertaken by AIBC in 2022.
They reaffirmed their commitment to take collective actions to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic and work towards a sustainable post-Covid-19 recovery. The Ministers welcomed ASEAN and India to forge collective actions in securing a robust supply chain connectivity to maintain the flow of essential goods and services through the launching of ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement (AITIGA) Upgrade Negotiations, mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination, vaccines production, public health surveillance, and medical technologies in moving forward with the post-pandemic recovery responses and facing future health crises.
Patel briefed the meeting about the progress made by India in overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic with its current focus on vaccinating all eligible citizens and the major milestone of administration of 2 billion vaccine doses including booster doses achieved in July 2022, 18 months after the vaccination scheme started in January 2021. She also shared information on the steps taken by India in liberalising and simplifying its FDI policy resulting in the ever-increasing volumes of FDI inflows, setting new records. She invited ASEAN countries to invest in India and be partners in its success.