Speaking at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Governor's seminar on 'Policies to support Asia's rebound', Sitharaman said sooner a solution ...

In May, India restricted export of wheat to enhance domestic availability. This month, it also banned export of broken rice and imposed a 2...

The peace clause protects India's food procurement programmes against action from WTO members in case the subsidy ceilings are breached.

Subsidies over and above the prescribed ceiling are seen as trade distorting. The limit is fixed at 10 per cent of the value of food produc...

India will pitch for finding a permanent solution to the issue of public stock holding for food security purposes in the forthcoming meetin...

Peace clause protects India’s food procurement programmes against action from WTO members in case the subsidy ceilings – 10 per cent of the...

Under the global trade norms, a WTO member country's food subsidy bill should not breach the limit of 10 per cent of the value of productio...

The peace clause protects a country’s food procurement programmes against WTO action.

The outcome is likely to be on issues concerning domestic support, export restrictions and cotton, while a few others including export comp...

Council is expected to extend 'peace clause' till a permanent solution is found to food stockpiling issue of developing countries including...

India had stalled signing of the trade facilitation agreement in July, demanding that the other deliverables of the December 2013 Bali mini...

He added that the food stock holding arrangement, which is being calculated on the prices of 1986-87, itself appears to be unreasonable.

A comma apparently was cause for confusion over the availability of the 'peace clause' on the issue of stockpiling for food security needs.

In a letter written to Singh, Acharya asked him to convene an all-party meet ahead of the forthcoming WTO ministerial meeting in Bali.

The NFSA may fall under market distorting subsidy since under it the govt will procure grains at market price and sell at rates below that.

The India-led G-33 is seeking that grains procured from subsistence farmers or to fight hunger should not be included under WTO-restricted ...

"An important issue where India is involved is food security proposal...an issue this big is not going to be fully solved in 4 weeks," WTO ...