Send signal to investorsWhile countries can better their investment-facilitation frameworks unilaterally, 125 countries see value in anchoring their efforts in sha...
04 Nov, 2024, 11.12 AM IST
India calls for reinvigorating discussions on development agenda at WTOIndia emphasizes reinvigorating WTO discussions on development for tangible progress, highlighting finance, technology, and food security. ...
08 May, 2024, 09.43 PM IST
Back to the drawing board: WTO reform requires a reassessment of its fundamentalsUsing the momentum garnered at MC12, the WTO must urgently deliver on institutional reforms. By going back to the drawing board, Members mu...
20 Jul, 2022, 10.32 PM IST
I have extreme respect for India and what it does: New WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaWhile Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala backs discussions on issues of India’s interest, such as public stockholding of foodgrains and safeguard mechanis...
02 Mar, 2021, 02.39 PM IST
India, South Africa question joint statement initiatives at WTOIndia and South Africa have questioned the consistency and legal status of the ongoing joint statement initiatives on issues such as e-comm...
23 Feb, 2021, 07.18 AM IST
WHO backs India & South Africa's IPR waiver proposal to WTO for Covid treatmentThe move gains significance as global drug makers involved in the development of Covid therapeutics have refused to give up patents over th...
19 Oct, 2020, 11.29 AM IST
International civil groups back India’s move on TRIPS waiver for Covid cureLeena Menghaney, a lawyer with MSF India, told ET that it is critical for governments to address this global crisis as they did nearly 20 y...
14 Oct, 2020, 11.50 PM IST
How the next WTO chief will be chosen and the task aheadwo women, Yoo Myung-hee of South Korean and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria, remain in the running to lead the World Trade Organization, sou...
08 Oct, 2020, 05.22 PM IST
World can no longer afford to keep the WTO in a ventilator: Pradeep Mehta, CUTS International“The world can no longer afford to keep the World Trade Organisation, which governs the rules-based multilateral trading system, in a venti...
24 Sep, 2020, 09.45 AM IST
How the next WTO chief will be chosen and the task aheadU.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" policies have upended the global trading order and presented an existential threat to the WTO...
18 Sep, 2020, 04.58 PM IST
How the next chief of World Trade Organization will be chosen and the task aheadThe WTO is a members-driven organisation with decisions reached by consensus among 164 countries. Three WTO ambassadors who chair leading c...
03 Aug, 2020, 01.54 PM IST
India blocked WTO ministerial declaration agreement in December: USThe four-day conference of the 164-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Argentina had ended without a ministerial declaration or any su...
01 Mar, 2018, 10.01 PM IST
India dissatisfied with steel product dispute judgement, appeals against WTOThe WTO dispute panel in July had ruled that the countervailing duty imposed by the US on Indian steel exports was inconsistent with WTO la...
12 Aug, 2014, 03.04 AM IST
Brazil's Roberto Azevedo to head World Trade OrganizationThe 55-year-old has been the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO and other International Economic Organisations in Geneva.
09 May, 2013, 05.49 AM IST
- EU calls for 'reassurances' on roadmap to climate treaty
European Union is considering a range of options to ensure that global effort on tackling climate change doesn't come to a standstill.
05 Dec, 2011, 04.30 AM IST