India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) enter into force on 01 April 2021. It was signed on 22 February 2021.
- The CECPA is the first trade Agreement signed by India with a country in Africa.
- The Agreement is a limited agreement, which will cover Trade in Goods, Rules of Origin, Tradein Services, Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures,Dispute Settlement, Movement of Natural Persons, Telecom, Financial services, CustomsProcedures and Cooperation in other Areas.
- The CECPA between India and Mauritius covers310 export items for India.
- Mauritius will benefit from preferential market access into India for its 615 products.
