The fund would also bag investments from institutions such as LIC and SBI, which would expand the corpus to Rs 25,000 crore.

Chinese Vice-Commerce Minister and top trade negotiator Wang Shouwen also expressed confidence that the differences on RCEP would be resolved by the end of this year

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RCEP trade deal: China said that the agreement is conducive to Indian goods' entry into China and other participating markets.

Piyush Goyal said that the lesson to be learnt from these negotiations is that one should never finalise a trade agrement in a hurry like it was done in 2010-11 with Japan, Korea, and ASEAN

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also called for talks to restart to finalise an agreement.

On Monday, India had announced that it will not join the RCEP, which is being negotiated between 10 ASEAN member countries and their six trade partners, after negotiations failed to address New Delhi's concerns on the biggest trade deal in the world

China also said it would welcome India joining the deal at an early date.

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While BJP says the trade deal would have hurt livelihoods of Indians, the Congressclaims its \"forceful opposition\" ensured the BJP backsout from bartering the interests of farmers and small businesses

RCEP trade deal: Congress also said that signing the RCEP would have been catastrophic given the \"rampant unemployment, a sinking economy and deep agrarian crisis emanating from utter mismanagement of economy by BJP Government\".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the present form of the RCEP Agreement does not fully reflect the basic spirit and the agreed guiding principles of the RCEP