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Understanding Bilateral Trade

This quiz aims to assess understanding of bilateral trade, including its definition and specific examples of goods traded within this system.

1 Bilateral trade or clearing trade is trade exclusively between two states, particularly, ________ based on bilateral deals between governments, and without using hard currency for payment.

2 Strategic goods, such as ________, are still traded bilaterally rather than in a multilateral open market.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic recognition to Taiwan.
  • improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in bilateral trade, rising from US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010.
  • since normalizing Sino-Mongolian relations, bilateral trade has risen to US$1.13 billion and China has become the largest trading partner and foreign investor in Mongolia.
  • with Cambodian-Vietnamese relations improving after the Cambodian-Vietnamese War, both nations set a target to increase bilateral trade to USD 2.3 billion by 2010.
  • growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010.
  • although building India's first overseas military base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations, bilateral trade remained low at USD 12.09 million in 2005.
  • India and Vietnam plan to sign a free trade agreement to bolster bilateral relations and further expand trade, which is expected to reach US$2 billion in 2008.
  • Germany helped India establish the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and their bilateral trade is expected to reach €30 billion by 2010.
  • a free trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthened Indo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupled bilateral trade, which grew to US$2.6 billion by 2006.
  • bilateral trade between India and Poland has grown by more than seven times from 1992 to 2007.