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The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday announced the extension of its four-day-long ongoing ministerial by a day, till June 16. In an urgent communication dispatched to heads of delegation today, the WTO secretariat said the…

GENEVA: Prospects for a grand redemption of the World Trade Organization dimmed as India stuck to its demands on several fronts during the third day of the trade body’s ministerial conference in Geneva. Indian commerce minister Piyush…

GENEVA: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday attacked developed countries for proposing to limit the subsidies of developing and poor nations, including India, while ensuring that they are not significantly hit by the…

GENEVA: Hours before the close of the WTO ministerial meeting, the multilateral agency’s chief Ngozi OkonjoIweala has proposed to extend the deliberations by a day as talks are deadlocked on multiple fronts — from patent waiver to…

Prospects for a grand redemption of the World Trade Organization dimmed as India stuck to its demands on several fronts during the third day of the trade body’s ministerial conference in Geneva. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal told a…

Geneva: An outcome from the ongoing WTO ministerial looked out of reach on the penultimate day of the conference as divergent views remained on fish and food stockholding negotiations. With the rich countries unduly pressuring India to…

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

India, along with 46 developing and least-developed countries, has pushed for enhancing production and maintaining the price stability of food with least distortion to global markets, as the 164 members of the World Trade Organization on…

New Delhi: India has rejected the current text on global fisheries subsidy negotiations, saying it does not provide a level playing field to developing nations to address the aspirations of their traditional fishers and protect their…