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Knowledge Nugget | How countries join the WTO: From Application to Accession explained
May 30, 2026 12:15 pm
India and Ethiopia's recent bilateral accession protocol brings the World Trade Organization (WTO) membership process into focus. But what is the WTO and how does a country become part of the global trade system? Here’s all you need to know. Also, go ‘Beyond the Nugget’ to know the key takeaways of the 14th Ministerial Conference.
For WTO to matter, it needs to recognise politics behind trade
May 19, 2026 7:12 am
The old DDA-related concerns remain unaddressed. Chinese overcapacity cannot be solved by trade measures alone. National security barely features in WTO discussions. Planetary rights are scarcely present in trade debates.
AI set to transform global trade, says WTO report
September 18, 2025 10:19 am
Such advancements could help increase export growth in low-income countries by as much as 11%, provided they improved their digital infrastructure.
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.
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