ABU DHABI: WTO talks ended here with ministers making no headway on key issues — agriculture and fisheries, while India and other countries are likely to agree to extension of customs duty waiver for e-commerce by another two years. Trade ministers from across the world refused to budge from their stated positions on reducing farm … Read more
ABU DHABI: Trade talks went into extra time as ministers sought to salvage a last-minute deal, with the focus largely on getting an outcome on India’s longstanding demand for a solution on public stockholding, and no further extension of the moratorium on e-commerce for electronically sharing movies and books.Of 30-odd paragraphs in the outcome document, … Read more
ABU DHABI: A comment by Thailand’s ambassador to WTO Pimchanok Vonkorpon Pitfield, accusing India of using ‘subsidised’ rice procured for the public distribution system for capturing the export market, has created a diplomatic storm with govt lodging a strong protest and Indian negotiators refusing to participate in some deliberations in groups where a representative from … Read more