She was speaking at a seminar on 'Strengthening global collaboration for tackling food insecurity on the sidelines of the third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting in Bali, Indonesia
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on the proposed fisheries subsidies agreement has said that the country wants a transition period of 25 years as it provides subsidies to support poor fishermen who are engaged in...
Goyal said that it is possible to find the solution as there are well-established and proven mechanisms available and documents are on the table which can be adopted and finalized.
Members of the Geneva-based WTO on June 17 secured a 'Geneva Package' which included agreements on curbing harmful fishing subsidies and a temporary patent waiver for the production of COVID-19 vaccines
Member countries of the organization have gathered here to finalize an agreement on disciplining subsidies to promote sustainable fishing, and a package in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
For every fisher family, India gives barely a $15 subsidy in a year. On the other hand, there are countries that give as high as $42,000, $65,000 and $75,000 to one fisherman's family.
It was in 2013 at the Bali ministerial conference of the WTO, that the member countries inked the trade facilitation agreement to promote the seamless movement of goods across the global borders.
The agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPs came into effect in January 1995. It is a multilateral agreement on Intellectual Property (IP) rights such as copyright, industrial designs,...
The United Nation's World Food Programme works in over 120 countries and territories to supply life-saving food to people displaced by conflict or made...
The main elements of the text, which is under negotiations for the WTO's response to the pandemic, include the TRIPS waiver proposal, food security, how trade...
Developed members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are pushing to eliminate subsidies under the proposed fisheries subsidies agreement, which is under...
He also said that it would have been better if the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was present at this meeting to hear the concerns of...
Goyal is leading the Indian delegation for the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC) of the WTO. MC is the highest decision-making body of the WTO, and it is...
He said that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the inability of the world to promptly respond to any crisis, whether on food security or health, economic...
The improvement in the key numbers are due to the remarkable improvement in merchandise exports in FY22, when it grew 42.4 per cent as against a negative 7.5...
The rise in the number of regional trade treaties and bilateral FTAs recently has left a question ark over the role and future of World Trade Organization
With the Russia-Ukraine war threatening the supremacy of West-driven Capitalism, is it time to bid goodbye to the dream of borderless trade and WTO?
