{"id":591,"date":"2015-06-23T01:50:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=591"},"modified":"2015-06-25T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T13:53:25","slug":"trade-pact-with-india-top-priority-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Trade pact with India top priority: Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"trade pack\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Concluding the comprehensive economic cooperation agreement (CECA) with India by the year-end remains Australia&#8217;s number one trade priority, the country&#8217;s trade and investment minister Andrew Robb said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p> Robb has visited India four times since September as Australia has pitched strongly for the CECA. He met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, commerce minister Nirmal Sitharaman and other senior officials. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;There is nothing to suggest that we won&#8217;t get it finished by the end of the year. That was a deadline set by Prime Minister Modi and Prime Abbot and it is very tight but it is Australia&#8217;s number one trade priority to get this economic agreement concluded by the end of the year,&#8221; Robb told a news conference on the sidelines of the India-Australia CEO&#8217;s forum.<br \/>\nSource: PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concluding the comprehensive economic cooperation agreement (CECA) with India by the year-end remains Australia&#8217;s number&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,5,9,10,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",400,336,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack-300x252.jpg",300,252,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",400,336,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",400,336,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",400,336,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",400,336,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",400,336,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",400,336,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trade-pack.jpg",375,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}