India is pushing for an extended moratorium on import duties for digital goods transmitted across borders. This move aims to provide busine...

World Trade Organisation members could not agree to extend a safeguard on intellectual property rules. This means the moratorium on non-vio...

The WTO ministerial conference in Yaounde concluded without agreement on crucial trade issues. Key among these was the e-commerce import du...

WTO talks: The talks at a WTO meeting in Cameroon were seeking to bridge differences over extending the e-commerce moratorium, and agree to...

Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) suggests India revise its international trade strategy due to the US imposing new tariffs. They argue for movin...

India on December 23, 2021 sent a letter to the General Council Chair to hold a virtual ministerial meeting on the response of WTO (World T...

India has also called for inclusion of the proposal in the WTO's response package being deliberated upon. The elements of this package incl...

The meeting assumes significance as India along with South Africa has been pushing for a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights o...

In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted a proposal suggesting a waiver for all World Trade Organization (WTO) members on the impl...

The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS came into effect in January 1995. It is a multilateral agre...

The WTO''s (World Trade Organisation) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS Agreement came into effec...

The legal and regulatory measures that India has used for protecting public health are fully consistent with the WTO TRIPS Agreement.

A group of developed nations led by the US and the EU has initiated discussions at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on legitimacy of thei...

India and China have decided to rake up the issue of tough intellectual property regimes being planned by certain countries that go much be...

Developed countries, including Japan, Korea, the US, Australia and New Zealand, are continuing to oppose India’s attempts to start negotiat...

India’s proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for checking bio-piracy and protecting traditional knowledge will be taken up at the...

Close on the heels of introducing product patents, India has drummed up support from a number of WTO members to push for modifications in t...