Agreements and MoUs Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The ECTA was signed with Australia.

The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement was signed in April 2022 and came into force on 29 December 2022. It removed or reduced tariffs on most goods traded between the two countries.

India's agreement with the UAE, also signed in 2022, is a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), not an ECTA. India had no such agreement in force with the USA or the UK at the time.

Answer: C

The correct order is 3, 1, 4, 2.

1. GSOMIA, on protecting shared military information: 2002.
2. LEMOA, on access to each other's bases for supplies and servicing: 2016.
3. COMCASA, on secure communications equipment: 2018, at the first 2+2 dialogue.
4. BECA, on sharing geospatial data: 2020.

These four are the 'foundational agreements' of Indo-US defence cooperation. GSOMIA came well over a decade before the others, and BECA completed the set in October 2020, so only the order beginning with GSOMIA and ending with BECA fits.