Is the world finally going to tariff big tech?The WTO failed to renew its long-standing moratorium on tariffs for e-commerce, ending a near 30-year consensus that kept digital trade dut...
10 Apr, 2026, 08.20 AM IST
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Environment ministers from about 100 countries are gathering in Nairobi from Monday to issue a clarion call against air, land and water pol...
02 Dec, 2017, 03.09 PM IST
India cautions against using regional trade pacts to change WTO pactsThe meet was convened with a view to informally discuss various issues relating to WTO negotiations and set the stage for the Eleventh Mini...
23 Oct, 2016, 07.28 PM IST
India set to push for liberalisation of services trade at WTO Geneva talksThough services negotiations are part of the Doha Round under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, not much has happened in these ne...
08 Jan, 2016, 04.22 AM IST
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...
30 Dec, 2015, 12.15 PM IST
Nirmala Sitharaman was outstanding — but WTO Nairobi meet can cause famines: M S SwaminathanSwaminathan discusses why he fears the WTO Nairobi meet could exacerbate global food insecurity, double standards over farming protection.
28 Dec, 2015, 12.25 PM IST
India got WTO commitment on special safeguard mechanism: Nirmala SitharamanGovernment today said "favourable" decisions on public stockholding for food security purposes and export competition are among the "achiev...
24 Dec, 2015, 10.37 AM IST
India to pursue food security issue with greater vigour at WTOThe minister said she was "utterly disappointed" because with one voice, the WTO could not reaffirm the Doha Developmental Agenda.
23 Dec, 2015, 08.01 PM IST
India didn’t come back empty handed form WTO, Nirmala Sitharaman tells Rajya SabhaNirmala Sitharaman said that India did not come back empty handed from the Nairobi ministerial of the World Trade Organization.
23 Dec, 2015, 04.34 PM IST
Negotiated hard for developing nations at WTO meet: Nirmala Sitharaman"India negotiated hard to ensure that the WTO continues to place the interest of developing countries and LDCs at the centre of its agenda,...
23 Dec, 2015, 03.43 AM IST
Export competition, lack of unanimity on Doha become spoilers for India at WTOIndia faced a major setback due to a lack of consensus among WTO countries on reaffirming the Doha Development Agenda.
20 Dec, 2015, 01.09 AM IST
Latest ministerial text shows WTO still divided on reaffirming DohaSharp divisions persisted among WTO member nations on reaffirming a pro-development global trade deal even as the hectic parleys continued ...
19 Dec, 2015, 09.55 PM IST
WTO talks enter 5th day; stalemate continuesThe WTO talks entered the fifth day today as a deadlock continued over reducing farm subsidies and on providing protection to poor farmers ...
19 Dec, 2015, 11.08 AM IST
India blocking WTO? Disagree, says Sitharaman as it battles to save DohaThe developed and developing countries have been engaged in intense negotiations for the last four days and the talks went on till wee hour...
18 Dec, 2015, 10.37 PM IST
India slams WTO's two drafts favouring developed countriesIndia has asserted that it has not given up on the public stockholding issue and wants it to be included in the preamble of the Nairobi dec...
18 Dec, 2015, 02.00 AM IST
Civil society protest against inclusion of new agenda in WTOThey called for a binding LDC (least developed countries) package and that the WTO Ministerial Declaration affirms the development mandate.
17 Dec, 2015, 10.59 PM IST
Permanent solution, SSM key for India at WTO meet: Nirmala SitharamanIndia will strongly pitch for a permanent solution for food security and a tool for developing nations to protect their poor farmers from s...
10 Dec, 2015, 06.44 PM IST