India and the UAE are reaping document outcomes from CEPA, with non-oil commerce hovering 33.9 per cent to $37.6bn in 2025.
A brand new analysis roadmap has been unveiled as each nations push towards their $100bn commerce goal by 2030.
In a landmark step to deepen the India–UAE financial partnership, senior ministers and enterprise leaders convened high-level conferences in Dubai and Abu Dhabi to evaluate progress below the Complete Financial Partnership Settlement (CEPA) and chart its future trajectory.
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The UAE–India Enterprise Council – UAE Chapter (UIBC-UC) hosted a closed-door session in Dubai attended by Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Overseas Commerce, and Piyush Goyal, Commerce and Trade Minister, Authorities of India.
Discussions centred on CEPA’s transformative impression since coming into power in Could 2022.
Non-oil bilateral commerce between the 2 nations reached $37.6bn within the first half of 2025, a 33.9 per cent improve over the identical interval in 2024.
The sturdy momentum positions the partnership firmly on monitor to fulfill its shared aim of $100bn by 2030.
Dr. Al Zeyoudi mentioned: “Since its entry into power in Could 2022, the settlement has marked a qualitative leap in commerce and funding ties, clearly mirrored within the progress charges of bilateral commerce and funding flows.
“The upward trajectory in non-oil commerce underscores that the UAE–India CEPA is on monitor to realize the shared aim of reaching $100bn by 2030.”
He added that the optimistic outcomes mirror the joint dedication of either side, bolstered by high-level visits and conferences. “The latest was the thirteenth assembly of the UAE–India Excessive Degree Joint Process Drive, held at present in Abu Dhabi below the chairmanship of Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Managing Director of Abu Dhabi Funding Authority, to additional broaden cooperation below the CEPA and discover methods to reinforce and develop it for the mutual advantage of each economies.”
Past commerce volumes, CEPA has catalysed new progress in gems and jewelry, meals processing, telecom, inexperienced vitality, and digital providers, whereas additionally fostering collaboration in rising sectors similar to synthetic intelligence, area expertise, sustainability, and monetary integration.
Constructing on this momentum, UIBC-UC launched a significant analysis paper, “Energy in Synergy: Unlocking India-UAE CEPA World Potential,” in the course of the Dubai assembly.
The paper highlights how CEPA has developed from a bilateral commerce accord right into a cornerstone of strategic cooperation.
“CEPA is now not only a commerce pact, it’s a blueprint for the longer term,” mentioned Faizal Kottikollon, Chairman of UIBC-UC, within the report’s foreword. “This partnership exemplifies how political will, shared imaginative and prescient, and aligned strengths can co-create a mannequin for cross-regional cooperation, innovation, and international management.”
The analysis outlines pathways for deeper collaboration in clear vitality, training, analysis ecosystems, digital integration, and human capital improvement.
It additionally frames CEPA as a world mannequin of resilient, innovation-led cooperation, aligned with each nations’ roles in multilateral groupings similar to BRICS, the G20, and the India-Center East-Europe Financial Hall (IMEEC).
Dr. Al Zeyoudi harassed that the UAE–India financial partnership shouldn’t be merely a commerce settlement however “a platform for reaching shared improvement targets, stimulating financial progress, accelerating reciprocal funding flows, and creating alternatives for enterprise communities in each international locations to broaden and prosper.”
