The India-Britain Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), together with the Agreement on Social Security a.k.a. Double Contribution Convention (DCC), formally enters into force on July 15. It will activate one of the most comprehensive and ambitious economic and trade architectures either country has negotiated in recent memory. Yet, its true foundation probably lies elsewhere.
India-Britain ties are held together not just by trade and diplomacy, but by nearly 2 million British Indians, among the country’s largest ethnic minority, and a cultural affinity shaped by generations of shared life. This ‘living bridge’ is the bedrock on which the CETA signed on July 24, 2025, rests.
