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New SEZ law to focus on job creation and research, not foreign exchange

The Bill shall propose the re-introduction of certain direct tax benefits, under which units set up in these development hubs shall attract a 15 per cent corporate tax until 2032

International trade must become a political priority for BJP's third term

India's failure to become a major trading nation has made it treat international negotiations as an irritant

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

Bond yields plunge, rupee gains as easing crude oil buoys markets

The rupee ended the day at 77.98 to a dollar against a close of 78.07 on Friday

Best of BS Opinion: WTO still lives, India's trade contradictions & more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

MC12: Decisions not impactful, but WTO wins big

The current practice of not imposing Customs duties on electronic transmission will continue till the next ministerial conference (MC13) to be held towards the end of December 2023

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

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

The four-day meeting was extended by a day

WTO provisionally agrees to extend e-commerce tariff moratorium: Report

The prospect of ending the moratorium, which has exempted data flows from cross-border tariffs since 1998, had raised major concerns among businesse

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

Johnson's ethics adviser says UK PM has put him in 'odious' position

"A deliberate breach, or even an intention to do so, would be to suspend the provisions of the code to suit a political end," Geidt said in his letter to the PM. "I can have no part in this."

Special provisions for emerging markets are non-negotiable: Goyal at WTO

Pushes for reforms in appellate body, which is currently non-functional

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

Nations getting 'half-baked deal' on TRIPS waiver: Goyal at WTO meeting

Addressing a meeting with co-sponsors of TRIPS waiver proposal, union minister Piyush Goyal said that the way nitpicking is being done by some countries, it only reflects their insincerity

At WTO MC12, India bats for test and treat strategy under TRIPS waiver

Twenty months ago, India and South Africa had urged WTO member nations to agree to temporarily waive some sections of TRIPS to ramp up production of vaccines, and diagnostics to combat Covid

Low expectations from the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference

The meet takes place under the shadow of global inflation, supply chain disruptions, lingering pandemic, slowing growth momentum, and the Russia-Ukraine war

Unfortunately, WTO couldn't respond with alacrity to control Covid: Goyal

India ramped up its supplies of medical products to different countries to deal with Covid, but WTO could not react with alacrity and members need to bow their heads in 'shame', Piyush Goyal said