Australia and India sign 'historic' trade deal


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Australia and India signed an interim free trade deal on Saturday that will see an easing of tariffs on various Australian goods and duty-free access for India on a vast majority of products. Trade Minister Dan Tehan and his Indian counterpart, Piyush Goyal, signed the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement during a virtual ceremony witnessed by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and India's Narendra Modi. Australian, Indian leaders hail agreement Morrison told reporters that the agreement with India represented "one of the biggest economic doors there is to open." Morrison also described the countries as "two dynamic regional economies,...