This report identifies options that negotiators and policy-makers could pursue in order to reach a permanent solution at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the problems some developing countries say they face when buying food at government-set (or government-administered) prices under their public stockholding programs for food security purposes. The …
GENEVA: India hit back on Monday at Washington's latest legal assault on its solar power policies+ at the World Trade Organization, rejecting a US legal claim and exploring possible new protection of India's own solar industry. Last month, the United States had triggered a new round of litigation at the …
Renewable energy has become a hot area of trade friction India has failed to comply with a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on solar power, the United States will tell the WTO's dispute settlement body (DSB) next month, triggering a fresh round of litigation, according to an agenda issued on …
Fossil fuel subsidies undercut the international community’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate change objectives in many ways. One example of this is by diverting investment from development objectives such as health care, education and access to renewable energy, and by locking in carbon-intensive energy systems for decades into the …
This paper develops the broad contours of an ambitious approach to fossil fuel subsidy reform using the multilateral trade system. It does not remain within the limits of existing World Trade Organization (WTO) law, or the overall market-opening goals of the WTO. Once those constraints are relaxed, it becomes clear …
This book is devoted to the complex relationship between the global trading system and food security, focusing on two important elements: the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and how food price volatility can be managed, or not, through trade instruments. The first section of the book is based on the premise …
New projects not to have local sourcing clause, on which WTO had raised objections India is hopeful of adhering to the World Trade Organisation’s year-end deadline for removing the compulsory domestic-sourcing clause in its national solar energy generation programme, as all ongoing projects are likely to be complete by then, …
Badly hit by a shrinking market and idle capacity, local manufacturers of solar cells and modules have decided to approach the government again seeking to impose a ‘safeguard duty’ on imported equipment. They had petitioned the Ministry of Trade and Commerce in early June seeking an anti-dumping duty on solar …
New contracts signed after December 14, under JNNSM, have to be without domestic content requirement The United States has agreed to give India time till December 14 this year to remove the requirement for mandatory domestic sourcing of solar panels and modules under its national solar power generation programme. “This …
The farmers are in trouble because the glut means that the value of the crop has gone down It took the tragic death of six farmers in Madhya Pradesh for the national media to report on the deep-rooted agricultural crisis. The farmers who were killed in police firing during protests …
This is the third attempt by the Indian panel makers to approach DGAD for anti-dumping duty In a fresh attempt to bar Chinese solar panel makers from flooding the Indian market at an ultra-low price, the domestic companies approached the Directorate General of Anti-Dumping (DGAD), requesting an imposition of a …
12,000 MW of solar power generation under mandatory domestic sourcing Despite facing flak at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for the domestic content requirement clause in the National Solar Mission, the government is still looking at means to aid the solar equipment manufacturing industry. Towards this end, the NTPC may …
NEW DELHI: India should play a proactive role in promoting open global markets to fill vacuum in the international leadership, The Economic Survey today said. At a time of a possible resurgence of protectionist pressures and India's need for open markets abroad to underpin rapid economic growth domestically, it is …
Puts on hold decision on approaching WTO panel against US India is delaying a decision on asking for a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organisation against domestic content regulations in renewable energy programmes run by eight states in the US as it is hoping to work out a …
BHOPAL: After Chinese crackers and lights whose sale have been banned by some districts in the state, it is the turn for Chinese threads (manja) used for kite flying. Panna district administration has banned use of Chinese threads that are made of plastic and synthetic material. The ban will come …
Localisation vital for developing nations, says SA Minister South Africa has backed India’s local sourcing rules in solar equipment manufacturing, while calling for BRICS countries to come up with a joint strategy to work around regulations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). “BRICS nations need to compare notes on how …
The US has said it will urge the World Trade Organisation to enforce the panel and appellate reports that found India's policies "discriminatory" against American solar products. The US Trade Representative yesterday also called for a special WTO meeting to adopt a compliance panel report that found the European Union …
The relationship between trade policy and climate policy needs to improve in the future, in particular with a view towards implementing the Paris Agreement. With the aim of making trade policy supportive of climate action, this working paper discusses the relationship between the regimes established by the World Trade Organization …
India has built a pipeline of around 1,800 megawatt of domestic content requirement projects as against operational cell manufacturing capacity of only about 600 megawatt. Demand from these projects should provide breathing room to the existing manufacturers and avoid any immediate repercussions from World Trade Organisation's ruling against India's domestic …
NEW DELHI: Solar manufacturers are unfazed by the WTO's upholding of the US complaint against India as the ruling was along expected lines, but project developers who import equipment are worried that the government may retaliate by imposing duties. Last week, the appellate body of the WTO upheld two earlier …
India's complaint is on the grounds that subsidies are inconsistent with world trade norms India has moved the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against the subsidy given by eight US states in renewable energy under American domestic content requirements, the Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday. "We have sought consultations with the …
