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Jaishankar meets Chilean FM Mackenna; discusses trade diversification, multilateral cooperationIndia and Chile are boosting economic ties. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Chilean counterpart to enhance cooperation. Disc...
India stood alone to oppose IFD pact at WTO meet, won't join crowd just to look better: GoyalIndia stood alone at the WTO meeting in Cameroon, opposing a China-led Investment Facilitation for Development agreement. Commerce Minister...
India alone on IFD issue as it erodes WTO’s functional limits, Bangladesh joins pactIndia has taken a firm stance at the World Trade Organization. The nation chose not to join the Investment Facilitation for Development Agr...
India opposes China-led investment pact in WTOIndia has strongly opposed the China-led Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement. Minister Piyush Goyal stated its incorporation ...
WTO members bypass opposition to introduce world's first baseline digital trade rulesA significant agreement on digital trade rules is moving forward. Several World Trade Organization members have decided to implement the pa...
Sharp divide over e-commerce moratorium on customs duties in WTO: GTRIA significant rift has emerged at the WTO ministerial conference in Cameroon over the e-commerce moratorium on customs duties, with the US ...
Turkiye lifts objection to IFD pact incorporationTurkiye has removed its objection to the China-led Investment Facilitation for Development agreement becoming a plurilateral pact within th...
Consensus key to include plurilaterals, careful reconsideration of ecomm moratorium: India at WTO MC14India urged consensus-based integration of plurilateral outcomes into the WTO framework, cautioning against additional obligations for non-...
US seeks flexible pathway to include plurilateral pacts at WTOAhead of the WTO's 14th ministerial conference, the US proposed integrating plurilateral agreements flexibly. It also called for a reevalua...
India negotiating new FTAsFTA: India is actively participating in regional and plurilateral platforms to support diversified and sustainable supply chains, including...
WTO chief urges India to back China-led investment pactWTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has urged India to support the China-led Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) agreement, ...
India's move to block China-led investment facilitation pact in WTO promotes multilateralism:ExpertsIndia's move to block a China-led investment facilitation pact at the WTO ministerial meeting promotes multilateral agreements. The agreeme...
Civil society criticises proposed investment pact, WTO DG roleIndia and South Africa have opposed it as it neither has the WTO mandate or its members’ consensus and cannot be brought to the formal proc...
New Delhi ready to negotiate hard on public stockholding of food and fisheries subsidies at Abu Dhabi WTO conference"Implementation of proposals in the WTO is challenging. The previous agreement to temporarily remove intellectual property rights on COVID-...
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 ...
For World Trade Organisation, the battle is about more than just staying relevantIf the pre-event negotiations and the convergence therein are any indication, the ministerial conference is likely to falter once again. Th...
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.
- India warns developed countries against selectively opening up services sector
The United States and the European Union, joined by some others, have floated the idea of a "plurilateral pact" on trade in services.
- India opposes pharma piracy pact by 10 nations
India has opposed an anticounterfeiting trade agreement by a small grp of countries which it feels will be used to stop the country's gener...
World Economic Forum at Davos: India to oppose pluriltateral agreementA pluriltateral agreement involves a few countries, while a multilateral pact includes all countries that are members of a global organisat...