15th AITIGA Joint Committee Meeting Held in Jakarta

The correct answer is the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia. ASEAN hosted the 15th Joint Committee of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement there from 6 to 9 October 2026, along with meetings of sub-committees, and the round was conducted in hybrid format. Option B, Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, is wrong for this round, although the next Joint Committee meeting is indeed to be held in India, in January 2027. Option C, Putrajaya in Malaysia, is a plausible distractor because the co-chair from the other side was Malaysia's Deputy Secretary General for Trade, but Malaysia only supplied a chair and not the venue. Option D, Bangkok in Thailand, is another ASEAN capital whose delegates attended but which did not host. The pairing to remember is the 15th round in Jakarta and the sixteenth in India.

The correct answer is three of eight. The Joint Committee has eight sub-committees, and three of them held hybrid meetings on the margins of the 15th round in Jakarta. They were the Sub-Committee on Legal and Institutional Issues, known as SC-LII, the Sub-Committee on National Treatment on Market Access, known as SC-NTMA, and the Sub-Committee on Rules of Origin, known as SC-ROO. Option A misstates both the number that met and the total, since there are eight sub-committees and not six. Option C overstates how many met, and option D would mean every sub-committee sat, which did not happen. Candidates should also note the direction issued at the end of the round, namely that all sub-committees must speed up the chapters still pending under the AITIGA Review and attach firm, time-bound deliverables to them.

The correct answer is January 2027 in India. At the close of the Jakarta round the two sides fixed the next Joint Committee sitting for January 2027, to be held in India and again in hybrid mode. That meeting will review what the sub-committees have delivered in the interval and give further guidance so that the negotiations are concluded on schedule. Option A is wrong because Indonesia hosted the round that has just ended, at the ASEAN Secretariat. Option C and option D name months and ASEAN host countries that appear nowhere in the announcement; Singapore and Viet Nam sent delegates to Jakarta but were not named as hosts. The examination point is the handover of the host role from ASEAN to India, with the Indian round carrying forward the AITIGA Review.