Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ETCA)

ETCA agreement seeks to boost cooperation in scientific expertise, technical areas and research amongst institutions between India and Sri Lanka.
It also seeks to boost standards of goods and services to compete on global market and improve opportunities for manpower training and human resource development.
The ETCA initiative follows unfruitful negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between two countries.
Objectives of ETCA:

1. Strengthen and advance the economic, trade, investment and technology cooperation.
2. Promote further liberalization of trade in goods, trade in services and gradually establish transparent, fair and facilitative trading, investment and investment protection mechanisms
3. Establish a cooperation mechanism and expand areas of economic cooperation.