New Delhi and Canberra concluded the seventh round of talks on a comprehensive deal on October 20, agreeing to pursue negotiations on five tracks and 14 new areas.
These include digital trade, government procurement, MSMEs, traditional knowledge, sports, gender, environment, innovations, space, labour and competition policy, they added requesting anonymity.
"While each partner has identified potential areas of cooperation, both will finally converge on areas of common interest, and take the negotiations further. Meanwhile, formal talks on five tracks-remaining goods, services, digital trade, government procurement, product-specific rules of origin (ROOPSRS) have been progressed fast," one of the officials said.
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