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China-led proposal on investment facilitation has systemic concerns for WTO, say expertsThe four-day meeting of trade ministers of the 164-member global trade rule-making body WTO begins on February 26 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. MC is ...
Aatmanirbhar Bharat different from Nehru's model: SJM chief Ashwani MahajanIn the midst of the ongoing debate surrounding restrictions on laptop imports, a new book edited by Ashwani Mahajan, the head of the Swades...
India views EU’s proposal on carbon tariff a protectionist tool, weighs options to counter itFrom October 1 this year, exporters, including from India, of steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity will have to ...
Multilateralism in crisis: Can the world live without WTO?In an age of rising protectionism and trade wars, the future for globalisation and the organisation that champions it, looks bleak.
Centre plans PM-driven events; state to hold Didi-led paradesThe Centre has decided to celebrate Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary in a grand manner, and has set up a 85-member committee headed by the ...
Govt refuses to disclose details on RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das appointmentThe govt has declined to share details, including names of candidates short-listed for the post.
India may move WTO if US denies preferential treatment to exportsUS GSP trade programme aims at promoting economic growth in developing world by allowing duty-free entry to select goods.
Brazil, EU seek cuts in farm subsidies, may affect India and other emerging economiesBrazil and EU have jointly prepared and circulated a paper among WTO members proposing a reduction in the ceiling on farm subsidies given b...
Tech leaders to discuss e-Comm with WTO chiefOutgoing US Trade Representative Michael Froman had asked India to open its ecommerce sector to foreign investment.
'US pulling out from Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement won't hurt India'We can only observe what is going on... since India is not a part of it,“ commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Industry watchers optimistic about India-US trade ties under Donald TrumpIn a note, State Bank of India said candidates who in the past scraped through in the US elections seemed to have performed better in terms...
- Training can improve unlicensed health care providers: Study
Kolkata, Oct 13 (IANS) Modest levels of medical training can improve the quality of health care furnished by unlicensed health care practit...
Singapore proposal to check food export limits worries India'Importing members will benefit from enhanced transparency in advance of the imposition of export restrictions.'
WTO: India to push hard for long-stalled Doha agenda in 2016A senior official said that India would now take up the issue of Doha Round as also about public stockholding for food security purposes in...
TPP agreement may not have much impact on India's trade: Study"We should dovetail our internal reform programmes in such a manner so as to become competitive and take advantage of such pacts," he said.
Economics Nobel winner strong critic of India’s poverty lineIt's not only collaboration with Indians and on India, the Princeton professor even had a tiff with Arvind Panagariya, former Columbia Univ...
Entire food security policy needs to be reformed: Abhijit Das, Head, Centre for WTO StudiesTrade facilitation might end up in cutting the red tape but the problem lies elsewhere. The problem lies in India’s scheme of minimum suppo...
Rice subsidy legroom may be the reason behind India's hard stand at World Trade OrganisationIndia is not far from its 10% subsidy limit on total value of production & permanent solution to public stockpiling for food security is cr...
Narendra Modi to take up WTO issues with Barack ObamaModi's upcoming visit to the US could be significant as India hopes to take trade talks forward when the WTO meets in September after the s...
- WTO asks India to train other emerging economies in negotiation skills
The World Trade Organisation has asked New Delhi to train other emerging economies in evolving trade policies and developing negotiation sk...