<h1>FTA negative lists preserve agricultural protections while outreach programmes inform exporters and SMEs about preferential market opportunities.</h1> The Department of Commerce runs outreach programmes to inform exporters, importers and SMEs about India's major FTAs and to gather feedback; FTAs include a conservative safeguard for agriculture through negative lists that limit tariff concessions on specified items, with stakeholder inputs guiding those lists and the Government open to specific agricultural concerns.