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 …
Eminent American and global bodies ask US that the move will not only undercut New Delhi's effort to cut poverty, but also detrimental to developing a solar energy industry A dozen-odd eminent American and international organisations have asked the US to reconsider its decision to drag India to the World …
Offers Incentives To Local Cos, Yet Drags India To WTO Over Solar Mission New Delhi: The US has dragged India to the World Trade Organization for its scheme to incentivize locallymade solar cells, but an analysis shows that there are at least half-a-dozen American states that offer additional sops to …
Finding itself on weak wicket, New Delhi will try to settle a complaint Washington filed in WTO challenging India’s policy on procuring equipments for its National Solar Mission. While the ministry of new and renewable energy, which made the policy, maintains that it did not violate global trade rules, the …
US charges that India’s National Solar Mission is discriminating against foreign solar companies Hogwash, we say. The US has been dumping subsidised solar power panels in India. It is browbeating India to further the interests of its own solar companies. It is US which should be made answerable at the …
'It is an attempt to browbeat India and further the interest of US solar companies' The US has challenged India's solar energy policy before the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying it favours domestic sourcing of solar panels. The challenge, filed on February 6, says the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission …
The United States on Wednesday filed a challenge with the World Trade Organization over elements of India's national solar program, which it said discriminates against foreign solar products in violation of a core global trade rule. The case comes as a number of governments, including the United States, are supporting …
There is something that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has in common with US diplomats—or at least the intellectual property (IP) attachés posted at various diplomatic missions: a dislike of NGOs. Both, the leader of the world’s most populous democracy and the diplomats of the most powerful democracy, make no bones …
Issuing licence is totally compliant with multilateral agreements: Sharma India, on Wednesday, conveyed to the U.S. that it had not violated any multilateral trade agreement by issuing compulsory licence for Bayer’s patented anti-cancer drug Nexavar to a local firm so as to make it affordable. It also asserted that such …
By adopting a policy decision to switch over to organic farming, Kerala could be chasing a delusion, according to S.Ganesan, chairman, International Treaties Expert Committee, Indian Chemical Council. Talking to The Hindu on the sidelines of a national seminar on `WTO, FTAs and Impact on Agriculture and Allied Sectors’ organised …
Each of the 3 drugs— Dasatinib Trastuzumab & Ixabepilone—costs 1L for a month’s dose The government has appointed a panel to look into issues related to compulsory licensing of drugs and whether cheaper versions of cancer medicines Trastuzumab, Ixabepilone and Dasatinib can be launched under the provision, a person with …
Says Proposals On Services, IT & Environmental Goods Against Its Interest New Delhi: India has decided to opt out of negotiations for agreements between select WTO member countries for liberalizing foreign direct investment and visa regimes in service sectors and for lowering import duty on 357 information technology products and …
The recent commodity boom has seriously affected South Asia, particularly due to higher food prices and their impact on the welfare of poor and vulnerable populations. This paper describes the food crisis and its effect on the region and then goes on to outline policies that countries in the region …
The GI craze in India is as inexplicable as the ways in which the Registry grants it People of Hoovina Hadagali (population: 27,958), the taluka headquarters of Bellary district of Karnataka, are inordinately proud of their variety of mallige (jasmine). So are the growers from Udipi and Mysore, all of …
With ministers pouring in here for the high-level segment of the UN climate negotiations, rumours swirled over the weekend about the host Qatar asking ministers from select countries to lead talks on specific issues that remained unresolved. On some previous occasions, the hosts, who act as presidency of the meeting, …
The Group of 20, which brings together countries that account for more than 80 per cent of world economic activity, was born in the global financial crisis of 2008. By reaching across the divide between developed and developing countries, it created a forum more consistent with the pattern of international …
New Delhi India has been ranked by the World Trade Organization (WTO) as the seventh largest player in the global services trade with the value of exports and imports aggregating $261 billion in 2011. With exports at $137 billion and imports at $124 billion, India is one of the five …
The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centred on the multi-billion dollar solar power market. The EU’s executive body is already studying Chinese dumping of solar panels, or deliberately selling products for less …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has given global suppliers five years to comply with its environmental rules or risk being pushed off U.S. shelves at the world's largest retailer, expanding a sustainability campaign launched in 2009. The new requirements, announced in China where Wal-Mart has more than 20,000 suppliers, will compel workshops …
Why don't you sell it for Rs.5? Rs.1.2 lakh per month is too high." On September 11, Supreme Court Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Desai posed that question to Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG, fighting to patent its expensive cancer drug Glivec. The question wasn't just judicial speculation or indeed wit. …
India has decided to put on hold its plan to drag the US to the World Trade Organisation for raising the cost of work visas, hoping to resolve the issue bilaterally with the new government after the US presidential elections in November. “We have dropped plans of taking US to …
