Myanmar, India to discuss trade promotion at 9th Joint Trade Committee Meeting

UNION Minister for Commerce U Chit Swe met Indian Ambas­sador to Myanmar Mr Abhay Thakur and a delegation led by Additional Secretary Shri Nitin Kumar Yadav of the De­partment of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India, who are in Nay Pyi Taw to attend the ninth Myanmar-India Joint Trade Committee Meeting, at the Un­ion Minister’s reception hall in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday evening.

Both sides discussed ways to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for Myanmar and India through the Joint Trade Committee, the implementation of processes to promote bilat­eral trade, the extension of the Memorandum of Understand­ing (MoU) on bilateral trade, the promotion of Myanmar’s agricultural exports, including pulses, to India, cooperation to facilitate the use of the two countries’ currencies in bilat­eral trade, and measures to enhance mutual exchanges be­tween business communities of both countries.

The meeting was attended by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, the Director-General of the Depart­ment of Trade, and other rele­vant officials. — MNA/MKKS