The proposal comes as India seeks to attract greater foreign investment from Europe and the UK and ensure that trade relationships also support capital flows into the country. In fact the DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade), working through Invest India, has run country-specific “fast-track”/“Plus”mechanisms since 2014 — Japan Plus, the Indo-German Fast-Track Mechanism (2015), Italy’s Fast-Track (2018), the EU Investment Facilitation Mechanism (2017), and most recently a Fast-Track Mechanism with Austria, operationalised in April 2026. These are single-window coordination platforms for resolving investor-specific regulatory bottlenecks, not tariff or customs instruments. The EU-UK green channel follows the same template, coming after the India-UK FTA (July 2025) and the India-EU FTA (concluded January 2026).
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