India-Oman CEPA
The India-Oman Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) came into force on 1 June 2026, six months after being signed in Muscat. It gives Indian exporters duty-free entry for 99.38% of what they ship to Oman and makes India only the second country -- after the United States back in 2006 -- ever to conclude a comprehensive trade pact with the Sultanate. For New Delhi it thickens a Gulf strategy already anchored by the 2022 UAE deal, turning Oman's ports at Sohar, Duqm and Salalah into a springboard to the wider GCC and East Africa.
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