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 …
THE collapse of world trade talks could be a boon to Australia's ailing carmakers, making it easier for the government to keep tariffs on imported cars, an analyst said on Thursday. The comments came as Australia's left-leaning Labour government received a report into the car industry, with manufacturers and trade …
NAGESH KUMAR THE fifteenth SAARC summit over the coming weekend in Colombo will confront many challenges. While the recent bombings will highlight the menace of cross-border terrorism, it will be important to advance the agenda of economic cooperation, especially in the context of global slowdown and the collapse of Doha …
This study aims to provide policymakers with an overview of biofuel certification schemes that are already in place or being developed, including: benefits and drawbacks of such schemes; implications for developing countries; and possible ramifications of certification in the context of the World Trade Organization. Certification is seen as an …
Ministers from about 35 countries have failed to make a breakthrough in the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Doha round to open up global trade. Talkd to broker a new global trade pact have collapsed because key powers are unable to bridge their differences on food tariffs, the head of the …
Rituparna Bhuyan / New Delhi July 31, 2008, 0:19 IST Indian farmers and food security activists are relieved over the inconclusive mini-ministerial meeting at Geneva, which had been convened to finalise the Doha Round of world trade talks. "We are very happy. Indian farmers have always wanted agriculture to be …
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 30, 2008, 0:18 IST The battle to conclude negotiations for Doha in agriculture and market-opening for industrial products broke down due to unbridgeable differences between India and the United States over the trigger and remedy for using the Special Safeguards Mechanism (SSM) by developing …
Arun SPosted online: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 0336 hrs Print Email Geneva, July 29: The ministerial level talks here that attempted to clinch a global trade deal failed to achieve a breakthrough after nine long and tense days of discussions mainly due to differences between the US and India …
Geneva: The nine-day laborious WTO talks to salvage the Doha trade round collapsed on Tuesday after the US was locked in a deadlock with India and China over import rules for farm products. WTO chief Pascal Lamy said, "the core group of seven nations, including India, US, EU, China and …
THE BJP has warned the government against diluting India's position at WTO negotiations, arguing that it will further hurt the already distressed Indian farmer. The warning came on a day when Geneva talks to liberalise global trade collapsed after big nations failed to agree on how to protect their farmers …
D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 29, 2008, 0:26 IST The United States yesterday applied strong pressure tactics at the mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by blaming India and China
SUDHIR KAPUR SINCE 2001, the international community is engaged in framing acceptable rules for agricultural, non-agricultural and services market access under Doha round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations. Even as these negotiations are on, the issue of excessive speculation resulting in price volatility in commodity markets, which is causing …
India's Concern Of Inadequate Provisions For Farmers' Protection To Have Bearing On Talks Amiti Sen GENEVA EVEN as the compromise paper put on the negotiating table by WTO director general Pascal Lamy last Friday prevented the mini-ministerial talks from collapsing over the weekend, optimism over a possible deal was replaced …
New Delhi Pressing For Better Protection Against Import Surges Of Farm Products Amiti Sen & Sheila Mathrani GENEVA THE blame game intensified at the ongoing mini-ministerial meet of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva as negotiations on a possible agreement on opening up markets in agriculture and industrial goods …
US President George Bush on Thursday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the progress of the India-US nuclear deal and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, according to reports from Washington. "Both leaders expressed their desire to see the US-India civil nuclear issue move forward as expeditiously as possible," …
Business Standard / New Delhi July 24, 2008, 0:04 IST Intense negotiations seem to be on the cards in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) "mini-ministerial" meeting on the Doha Round of trade talks, now under way in Geneva, but the chances of hammering out a deal appear slim. The informal …
Emerging economies challenged rich countries to prove their goodwill on Tuesday at crucial World Trade Organisation talks, which were hamstrung by the absence of the Indian trade minister. Ministers from about 35 key nations are meeting in Geneva this week to break seven-year deadlock over a new global trade deal. …
DOHA MINISTERIAL: DAY 2 D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 23, 2008, 0:29 IST As the negotiating chips are slowly unveiled in the make-or-mar Doha trade negotiations, the United States announced today that it will reduce its overall trade-distorting domestic support (OTDS) to $15 billion as compared to a range …
CHENNAI: India should reject the WTO draft agreements on Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Market Access as the provisions are detrimental to the country's interests, the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said on Monday. K.G. Kannabiran, president, PUCL, noted in a press release that the draft allowed farm subsidies in the …
TRADING THOUGHTS D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 22, 2008, 3:16 IST As the Doha trade negotiations enter a make-or-break phase, it is not a pleasant thought to evoke memories of Goebbels of the Nazi period, credited with having perfected the art of repeating a lie several times until it …
DOHA MINISTERIAL: DAY 1 D Ravi Kanth / Geneva July 22, 2008, 0:11 IST Trade ministers from over 30 countries began their crucial World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks here today to hammer out modalities(parameters) in the Doha Development Agenda. Instead of hard negotiations to find convergence on the final …
