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India's trade contradictions

WTO experience highlights India's less-than-coherent approach towards trade

Illustration: Ajay Mohanty
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Illustration: Ajay Mohanty

Mihir S Sharma
At the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, there will be an enormous sense of relief: A global body that most had assumed was beyond rescue has shown signs of life. The just concluded twelfth ministerial meeting of the WTO went well beyond its scheduled time to come to a series of agreements on several controversial issues, from fishing subsidies to vaccine patent protection.

What is important from an Indian point of view here is three things. First, India’s rhetoric has not changed at the WTO, and it once again soaked up all the attention as a possible spoiler, thanks
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