India’s data localisation a stumbling block: UK parliamentary report on FTA

A United Kingdom parliamentary report on India-UK Free Trade Agreememt negotiations has said that India’s pursuit of data localisation is a “stumbling block” in free cross-border data flows among the two sides.

The House of Commons International Trade Committee, in its latest report on “UK trade negotiations: Agreement with India”, also cautioned that increased UK market access for India in textiles, clothing, footwear and horticultural products could have an “adverse impact on some developing countries in South Asia, South-East Asia and East Africa which benefit from preferential access to the UK market”.