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India, South Africa question joint statement initiatives at WTO

India and South Africa have questioned the consistency and legal status of the ongoing joint statement initiatives on issues such as e-comm...

WTO set to gain new chief, but deep issues remain

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian economist and former finance minister, is poised to become the first woman and first African to lead the Wo...

FDI changes fully compliant with India's WTO commitments: Union Minister Som Parkash

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Som Parkash said in the meetings of the Council for Trade in Services under WTO held ...

​Chance for India, US to resolve duty dispute as WTO defers ruling

India had complained that the duties were inconsistent with provisions of the WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994, and...

We are fast achieving pre-COVID-19 levels in exports: Commerce secretary

The secretary said measures like production-linked incentive scheme would expand the manufacturing base and that will take exports to the t...

Government proposal of Rs 7,000 cr PLI for IT hardware insignificant; at least Rs 20,000 cr needed: MAIT

The Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology (MAIT), whose members include Apple, Dell, HP and Lenovo, wants the government to ...

Rise above narrow interests, support plan for uninterrupted flow of medicines, vaccines: India tells WTO

At an informal mini-ministerial meeting of around 30 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), commerce and industry minister Piyush G...

Commerce Ministry recommends imposing anti-dumping duty on Chinese chemical

The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has recommended the duty after concluding in its probe that '1-phenyl-3-methyl -5-pyrazolo...

WTO to take up India, South Africa's TRIPS waiver plea

The proposed game-changing waiver of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) would enable free flow ...

Under Biden, China faces renewed trade pressure

Biden won't confront Beijing right away, economists say, because he wants to focus on the coronavirus and the economy. However, Biden looks...

India cites global shortage of Covid-19 vaccines as consensus eludes its TRIPS waiver proposal

New Delhi termed developed countries’ argument on the sufficiency of such licensing arrangements for ramping up manufacturing capacities “w...

India urges WTO members to find permanent solution to public stock holding for food security

The comments were made during the final session of India's seventh Trade Policy Review (TPR) which concluded on Friday at the WTO in Geneva.

India implemented several measures to facilitate trade during 2015-20: WTO

"During the period under review, India implemented several measures to facilitate trade, such as a reduction in the number of documents req...

The World Trade Organization is having a midlife crisis

But now the WTO is all washed up. Like Rodney Dangerfield, it gets no respect. Its two biggest economies — China and the United States — ar...

World Trade Organization mulls how to ease food aid hurdles in pandemic

Dozens of WTO members, including the United States, the European Union and China, support the proposal put forward by Singapore and the Wor...

India extends anti-dumping duty on float glass from China

The duty on float glass of thickness between 2 mm to 12 mm of clear as well as tinted variety save green but not including reflective glass...

Thailand, European Union question India's import restrictions on tyres, ACs and TV Sets

Bangkok also complained that many Thai exporters were unable to export television sets to India because the government did not grant import...