New Delhi - Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal recently said India is finalising free trade agreements (FTAs) only after extensive consultations with all the concerned stakeholders. He said that unlike in the past, these pacts are now fair, equitable and balanced.

"We are not doing FTAs like in the past. Every agreement is after extensive stakeholder consultation," he said at the Thuglak Annual Meet in Chennai.

Citing the agreement with the four-European nation bloc EFTA, he said that for the first time . . .