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Staff representation of India in WTO secretariat stagnant in past 25 yearsIt has stated that smaller countries, with less population, have more staff in the secretariat than India, which is the world's second most...
- India, South Africa seek waiver in global IPR laws for easy access to medical products
Citing reports of IPRs hindering timely provisioning of affordable medical products to the patients, they highlighted that certain members ...
- US, EU oppose India's subsidy cut waiver proposal
The US and EU have argued that the proposal before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) – which seeks to exempt countries with national in...
- World trade rebounds slowly in Sept quarter, outlook uncertain
UNCTAD expects a 7-9% on-year drop in the value of global trade in 2020 despite signs of a rebound led by China, due to a possible resurgen...
- World Trade Organization to be led by a woman for first time
A selection committee said that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria and Yoo Myung-hee of South Korea qualified for the final round in a race exp...
- How the next WTO chief will be chosen and the task ahead
wo women, Yoo Myung-hee of South Korean and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria, remain in the running to lead the World Trade Organization, sou...
- UK PM Boris Johnson says time to get ready for 'no deal' Brexit
In a statement from Downing Street, Johnson said that he was making a judgment call on the UK-EU trade negotiations as the January 1, 2021,...
- India asks WTO members to constructively engage for permanent solution to food stockholding
According to statements delivered by Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the WTO, Brajendra Navnit, at the meeting of Gener...
- China allowed Covid to spread around world, says Donald Trump
"We came together and what happened was that we then got hit by the plague (COVID-19).We were really coming together and then we got hit by...
- India extends anti-dumping duty on import of a certain variety of fibre board exported from China
The Directorate General of Trade Remedies had sought for an extension of the duty on “Plain Medium Density Fibre Board of thickness 6mm and...
- India initiates anti-dumping probe against two Chinese products
The commerce ministry's investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) is probing alleged dumping of 'Hydrofluorocarbon (HF...
- China says US and Indian bans on TikTok, WeChat broke WTO rules
The Trump administration has ordered download blocks on the two mobile apps and ordered ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to sell its...
- How the next WTO chief will be chosen and the task ahead
U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" policies have upended the global trading order and presented an existential threat to the WTO...
- India and S.Africa ask WTO to waive rules to aid COVID-19 drug production
In their letter dated Oct. 2 the two countries called on the global trade body to waive parts of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of ...
- India not in position to accept uninhibited cross border data flows: Piyush Goyal
DFFT seeks to eliminate restrictions on cross-border transfer of information by electronic means, including personal information, and stori...
- Dispute panel against India’s import duties on ICT goods likely on Japan, Taiwan’s request
“The requests of Japan and Taiwan are scheduled for later this month at the Dispute Settlement Body. We can’t block their requests anymore,...
- Departing World Trade Organization chief Roberto Azevedo gets top job at PepsiCo
Roberto Azevedo, who on August 31 will step down as WTO Director-General after seven years at the helm, will the next day become an executi...
- US, European Union, others question India on using WTO peace clause
The peace clause protects a developing country’s food procurement programmes against action from WTO members in case subsidy ceilings are b...
- Who's bidding to be next World Trade Organization chief?
Azevedo's successor will need to steer reforms and negotiations in the face of rising protectionism, a deep recession caused by the COVID-1...
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