<h1>India-EFTA TEPA rollout boosts trade, manufacturing and investment ties, offering broad tariff cuts while shielding sensitive sectors.</h1> Implementation of the India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) is being accelerated, positioning TEPA as the operative framework for expanded trade, manufacturing collaboration, and investment linkages between India and EFTA states. TEPA prescribes EFTA market access covering 100% of non-agricultural products and tariff concessions on processed agricultural products, enabling duty-preferential entry for covered Indian exports. India's tariff offer to EFTA covers 82.7% of tariff lines representing 95.3% of EFTA exports, while expressly excluding or shielding identified sensitive sectors (including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, processed food, dairy, soya, coal, and sensitive agricultural products), thereby limiting preference exposure in those segments. Imports largely comprising gold remain subject to no change in effective duty, preserving the existing tariff treatment.