Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal completed a multi-nation diplomatic tour across Spain, Belgium, Finland, and Estonia to advance investment linkages, establish an annual India-Spain Joint Commission, and explore digital payment interoperability between UPI and Spain’s Bizum following the conclusion of India-EU FTA negotiations. Domestically, the Indian Vegetable Oil Producers’ Association (IVPA) raised urgent policy alarms over a 17-fold surge in duty-free refined soybean and palm oil imports from Nepal under the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement, projected to reach 1 million tonnes annually, which threatens domestic refining capacity, reduces local oilseed demand, and costs the exchequer ₹2,000–2,500 crore in annual customs revenue losses. Concurrently, agricultural trade experts caution that Indian agri-exports face severe hurdles in reaching the $100 billion target by 2030 due to high border rejection rates in the EU and Asia over Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) violations, excessive ethylene oxide (EtO) use, uneven state-level testing laboratory density, and regulatory divergence from international pesticide standards.