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Let India export foodgrains from public stock: FM Sitharaman at G20

Says India could help in reducing hunger or food insecurity

Enduring global food crisis

Blame game would serve no purpose

Govt pitches for 25-yr exemption from subsidy cuts on distant water fishing

Fishing beyond 200 nautical miles (370 km) from the seashores of a country is called distant water or high sea fishing

Until US, China enact reforms, WTO will continue to fade into irrelevance

China has benefited far more from the WTO than any other trading nation; it should step up and take responsibility for keeping the organization afloat by redefining its role

India supported TRIPS waiver for benefit of developing nations: Goyal

According to the minister, India has a number of Covid vaccines and can help other developing countries to make vaccines

India fully protected interests of farmers, fishermen at WTO meet: Goyal

Goyal said that the decisions taken in the conference will further strengthen the role of the multi-lateral body in promoting global trade

India's trade contradictions

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

WTO still lives

Outcomes for India were mixed

India softens stance to hammer out a "no harm" trade deal at WTO meet

Piyush Goyal said perhaps this was the first ministerial where India set the agenda. "We were on the front foot. We were telling other countries what needs to be done"

WTO's vaccine patent waiver may have little impact on ground now: Industry

Serum Institute says while patent waivers for Covid-19 vaccines are 'encouraging', demand for vaccines today is declining

WTO approves package of trade agreements, prompting cheers from delegates

At one stage, a series of demands from India appeared set to paralyse talks but accommodations were found, trade sources said

Top Headlines: WTO members reach deal, advance tax collection up 48% in Q1

The members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), for the first time in a decade, finalised a historic deal at 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12). Read more in our top headlines

For the first time in a decade, WTO members reach historic deal at Geneva

The four-day meeting was extended by a day

WTO members could finalise a trade deal in 'next couple of hours'

Negotiations on fisheries are going on and members are quite close to a deal with carve-outs for India and other developing countries, said an Indian trade negotiator on condition of anonymity

Battered WTO on the verge of 'dead end' heading into final day of talks

India reiterated Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal's view that any WTO vaccine agreement must also waive IP rights for Covid-19 diagnostic tests and therapeutic drugs, according to the readout

Special treatment is non-negotiable right for all developing nations: Goyal

Special provisions provided to developing nations in all the agreements of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) through special and differential treatment are the non-negotiable matter for the emerging economies and they should be continued, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday here. The gaps between the developing and developed members have not yet narrowed down in decades but in fact have widened in many areas. And because of that S&DT (Special and Differential Treatment) provisions continue to be relevant," he said. "S&DT is a treaty-embedded and non-negotiable right for all developing members," he added. The minister was speaking in the thematic session on WTO reform. As part of the proposed WTO reforms, developed countries are saying that developing countries are bypassing rules in the name of self-proclaimed development status in the WTO. On the other hand, developing nations, including India, are demandeurs for special and differential ...

WTO members make final push for trade deals, with eyes on defiant India

WTO DG Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told the more than 100 ministers present that time was running out and that they should "go the extra mile" to converge on the full range of issues

Hopes for grand redemption of WTO fade as India sticks to fishing demands

Piyush Goyal told a meeting of delegates Tuesday that it would not bend on demands for extensive exceptions on a 20-year negotiation to curb harmful government fishery subsidies

One cannot tread the path of trade on an empty stomach: Goyal at WTO meet

India strongly pitched to the WTO members for finding a permanent solution to the issue of public stock holding of grains, stating that one cannot tread the path of trade on an empty stomach

WTO Ministerial: Can't agree to unfair text on fisheries deal, says Goyal

India wants to protect subsidies of several million low-income, poor traditional fishermen as it is a matter of livelihood for them