India maintains certain sensitive sectors and exclusions or longer fading periods. This means you will not receive immediate or full mission benefits under the UK FTA.
The agricultural sector excludes sensitive products such as dairy products, apples, cheese, oats, animals and vegetable oils. This means that India will not provide any obligatory benefits to the UK for these items.
Similarly, some sensitive industrial products have also been excluded from the mandatory immediate benefits. These include plastic, diamond, silver, base stations, smartphones, TV camera tubes, fiber optics, fiber optic bundles, cables.
A longer fading period applies to other categories. These include ceramics, petroleum products, and certain chemicals such as carbon, red phosphorus, chlorosulfuric acid, sulfuric acid, and boric acid. Noble metal solutions for platinum, aircraft engines, and engineering equipment also fall under this long fading category.
