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Japan-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (JICEPA)

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The Japan-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (JICEPA) is a bilateral trade agreement which was signed 16 February 2011 and came into force on 1 August 2011.

 

The agreement ratifies base tariffs in a broad number of sectors, including the energy products and their components:

  • Electric motors, turbines and generators; 
  • Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances, and other advanced machinery; 
  • Electric accumulators, transformers, capacitors, batteries; Motor vehicles; 
  • Mineral ore, slag and ash; 
  • Mineral fuels, oils and other products; 
  • Metals and their articles e.g. iron and steel; 
  • Semiconductors devices and photovoltaic cells; 


Rules of origin applies and qualify good that is wholly produced in the parties' territories, or non-originating good provided that the good has a qualifying value content of not less than 35 percent; and/or all non-originating materials used in the production of the good have undergone in the Party a change in tariff classification at the six-digit level of the Harmonized System. 

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