Beyond the Tariffs: What India's New Trade Architecture Means for Business

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Beyond the Tariffs: What India's New Trade Architecture Means for Business

Beyond the Tariffs: What India's New Trade Architecture Means for Business

When

2 September 2026

Time

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Arrival

7:45 AM

Where

JW Marriott, SB Road, Pune

For whom

CEO Forum

Departure

10:00 AM
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Beyond the Tariffs: What India's New Trade Architecture Means for Business
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Can Indian businesses still plan around a stable trade policy backdrop, or has that assumption already broken down?
In this session, Professor Anupam Manur will unpack how India's policy response, layering quality control orders and anti-dumping duties onto tariffs, is trying to balance reduced import dependence against competitive input costs, and how businesses can read their geopolitical exposure through four recurring choke points: physical, raw materials, technology and human capital. The aim is a portable framework members can apply to their own footprint.

Key Takeaways

Where India's current tariff flashpoint, tied to Russian oil purchases, sits within a longer pattern of ad hoc trade actions, and what that means for how businesses should treat policy risk.

How India's policy response, layering quality control orders and anti-dumping duties onto tariffs, is trying to balance reduced import dependence against competitive input costs.

Why geopolitical exposure is best read through four recurring choke points, physical, raw materials, technology and human capital, rather than a single sector by sector forecast.

How weaponised interdependence changes what counts as a genuine planning risk for businesses whose supply chains, pricing and market entry decisions assume policy continuity.

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