World Trade Organisation
Indian solar power norms discriminatory: WTO
25 Feb 2016
Sierra Club blasts anti-India WTO ruling on solar power
25 Feb 2016
Urging the US to drop its case against India solar localisation policies, a top American environmental group says that almost half of US states have a programme similar to that of India
US wins WTO ruling against India in solar panel dispute
25 Feb 2016
The United States complained to the WTO in 2013 about the Indian solar programme, which required that certain cells and modules be made in India, saying that it violated WTO rules on discriminating against imports
India bends backwards; set to endorse WTO’s trade facilitation deal
04 Jan 2016
The TFA, which aims at easing customs rules and expediting the movement and clearance of goods to facilitate trade, is all set to bury the “development agenda” of the WTO’s ongoing Doha Round of trade negotiations
WTO meet: India seeks solution to food security issue
15 Dec 2015
India wants the WTO to remove disparities in agricultural trade rules, which favour the heavily subsidised agricultural products of developed countries
India to seek logical end to Doha Development Round at WTO
11 Dec 2015
India on Thursday said it will not sacrifice the development agenda of the Doha Round of trade negotiations to support the so-called trade facilitation measures
WTO rules against India in solar panel dispute with US: report
27 Aug 2015
The WTO dispute settlement panel, in a confidential report to New Delhi and Washington, found India violated global trade rules by imposing local content requirements for solar cells and solar modules
WTO members seal trillion-dollar IT trade deal
24 Jul 2015
The addition of about 200 high tech products in the updated Information Technology Agreement (ITA) will benefit technology companies like General Electric Co, Intel Corporation, Texas Instruments Inc, Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co
India loses poultry case against US in WTO
04 Jun 2015
India, US again at loggerheads in Geneva over farm subsidies
29 Jan 2015
Despite the bonhomie during President Barak Obama's Delhi visit this week, disagreements again flared up between the US and India at the first informal meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva on Wednesday over the stockpiling of grains for food security
WTO appellate body backs India in steel subsidy row with US
09 Dec 2014
The WTO appellate body has held that the countervailing duty imposed by the United States against ''certain hot rolled carbon steel flat products'' from India is inconsistent with the provisions of the WTO rules on subsidies and countervailing measures
WTO hammers out first and `inclusive’ global trade deal
28 Nov 2014
WTO on Thursday ratified a global deal - the first in its history - to ease customs rules and facilitate faster movement of trade and also address concerns of the developing and poor member nations
India, US end WTO wrangle over food stockpiling
13 Nov 2014
While no details of the agreement worked out between the two nations have been disclosed, India is expected to have won guarantees to protect its $12-billion annual food subsidiesprogramme
US lauds WTO ruling against India over poultry imports ban
15 Oct 2014
A WTO dispute settlement panel ruled in favour of the US in a dispute challenging India's ban on various American agricultural products – such as poultry meat, eggs, and live pigs – allegedly to protect against avian influenza
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