World Trade Organisation

25 Feb 2016

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

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

09 Feb 2016

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

21 Dec 2015

17 Dec 2015

15 Dec 2015

India wants the WTO to remove disparities in agricultural trade rules, which favour the heavily subsidised agricultural products of developed countries

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

26 Sep 2015

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

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

04 Jun 2015

21 Feb 2015

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

27 Jan 2015

16 Jan 2015

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

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

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

05 Nov 2014

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

14 Oct 2014

18 Sep 2014

12 Aug 2014