Staying away from RCEP is a decision in favour of country's small businesses, farmers, dairy, data security and manufacturing sector, says SJM

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India's dairy, steel, textile, MSME and e-commerce companies, along with advocacy groups pushing for data sovereignty, want the government to reject RCEP drafts

Ever since RCEP negotiations started six years ago, experts from participating countries have had 28 rounds of negotiations, the last being at Da Nang, Vietnam, from September 19 - 27

RCEP is a mega free trade agreement of 10 ASEAN countries with their six FTA partners, India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand

The proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a trade agreement being negotiated between the 10-country group of ASEAN and its existing FTA partners China, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and India

In the recent round of negotiations for RCEP, India pushed to include the Automatic Trigger Safeguard Mechanism, or ATSM, which will automatically increase levies once imports cross a given threshold

Domestic telecom equipment makers want a ban on foreign telecom vendors, but they will find it challenging to convince buyers at home

In 2018-19, India had trade deficit with 11 out of 20 RCEP countries. In 2017-18, it had a trade deficit of $104 billion with all RCEP countries; more than half of this ($57.86 trillion) was with China

The meeting would discuss job creation, equitable growth and the Sangh's alternative development model. It will also focus on pushing for better coordination among affiliates

The issue blew up on August 14 when restaurants across major cities started the #logout campaign in protest to deep-discounting that some platforms were providing users. Restaurants felt deep-discounting was hurting the core value proposition of the restaurant business and undermining its value

The Swadeshi Jagran Manch said India's telecommunications network should be fully indigenised and reserved for domestic companies on security grounds