{"id":736518,"date":"2026-08-13T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736518\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:24:19","slug":"india-trade-an-opportunity-for-jersey-businesses-ministers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/736518\/","title":{"rendered":"India trade an opportunity for Jersey businesses, ministers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said trade between Jersey and India was currently relatively &#8220;modest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between 2018 and 2022, imports were valued at about \u00a3630,000, mainly clothing and jewellery; while exports were worth about \u00a316,500, largely finance-related products, including card readers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said it would &#8220;raise awareness of the opportunity&#8221; and &#8220;assess interest from firms on island&#8221; following the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report also said existing controls would prevent harmful products entering Jersey, including those containing banned pesticides or growth hormones linked to health risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ministers said the deal was important to keep Jersey aligned with the UK and other Crown dependencies on trade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report also warned that non-inclusion could &#8220;create divergence within the UK Crown Dependencies Customs Union&#8221; over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow BBC Jersey on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcjersey\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcjersey\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a>. Send your story ideas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/mailto:channel.islands@bbc.co.uk\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">channel.islands@bbc.co.uk, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report said trade between Jersey and India was currently relatively &#8220;modest&#8221;. Between 2018 and 2022, imports were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}