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South Africa, Namibia, Turkey back India in opposing China-led WTO pact: Official
December 11, 2024 7:56 am
This comes at a time when investment flows are increasingly shifting away from China due to a possible US-China trade war and a weakening consumer demand in China.
Japan, China raise question over India’s laptop import monitoring system at WTO
May 25, 2024 6:14 pm
India’s move to restrict laptop imports had earlier too gathered attention particularly from the US as United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai raised the issue during the G20 meet in India.
Current approaches for addressing overfishing flawed: India at the WTO
February 28, 2024 4:59 am
This came during the WTO negotiation session on fisheries subsidies in the ongoing Abu Dhabi Ministerial Conference-13, ministry of commerce and industry said in a statement.
‘Small scale fishing should be exempted from WTO talks’
February 21, 2024 12:24 am
Commerce Ministry officials maintain that India will push against any form of curbs on its subsidies to poor fishermen at the WTO and also seek a moratorium on fishing subsidies from advanced countries including the US and EU during the upcoming inter-ministerial.
India faces WTO pressure on farm subsidies amid protests for minimum support price
February 15, 2024 11:23 am
The Cairns Group - comprising Australia, Brazil and Canada among others members — have claimed that India’s public stockholding (PSH) programme is highly subsidised and the farm support that India gives is “distorting” global food prices and “hurting” food security of other countries.
‘India susceptible to trade disputes without permanent solution for food security’
February 20, 2024 11:21 am
This assumes special significance as farmers are holding yet again protests in the national capital seeking a law to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for all crops. Several farmers groups have long held the opinion that India should walk out of WTO.
'WTO not place for discussing labour, environment issues'
February 08, 2024 1:42 am
International trade experts have pointed out that developed nations have been pushing for non-trade issues in the garb of sustainability to reverse the growing trade deficit that it has with the developing nations.
US blocks fresh proposal to restart dispute settlement mechanism at WTO
January 28, 2024 7:37 am
This is the 73rd occasion when a proposal moved by Guatemala, a Central American country, on behalf of 130 members was not able to launch the selection processes.
WTO dispute settlement body revival faces delays over country differences: GTRI
January 22, 2024 12:51 am
This comes as the 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) is set to gather next month in Abu Dhabi for the 13th ministerial conference (MC) to resolve different issues such as reforms in dispute settlement mechanisms, agriculture-related matters among other key issues.
‘Permanent solution for public stockholding top priority for India’
January 19, 2024 1:28 am
Some WTO members including the US and Europe have been trying to shift the narrative of food security from public stockholding (PSH) to value-chain, market access and export restrictions.
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