JOHANNESBURG — Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are reviving attempts at a comprehensive trade deal, which both countries started negotiating in 2010.

“The two leaders agreed to formally launch negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told The Canadian Press at the G20 summit in Johannesburg.

She said the trade deal would include goods, services, investments, agriculture, digital trade, labour mobility and sustainable development, “to name a few,” and that negotiations will begin “as soon as possible.”

Anand said Modi and Carney discussed artificial intelligence, including “their mutual interest in furthering advancements in the use of AI and digital technology more generally.”

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