| Tata Motors mulls letting assemblers brand Nano | 02-NOV-09 |
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| Seven months after the launch of Nano, Tata Motors is toying with the idea of letting local garage assemblers put together the world’s cheapest car and also sell it under a brand of their own. |
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| US wants India to decrease tariffs on industrial goods | 29-OCT-09 |
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| Commerce ministry officials are examining a demand made by the US that India should agree to steep tariff cuts on a range of industrial products that cover about 60 per cent of the latter’s overall imports. |
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| India rejects draft WTO services schedule by US | 23-OCT-09 |
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| India, along with other countries, today shot down a concerted move by the United States, Australia, and Canada to prepare draft scheduling of commitments in Doha services negotiations based on signals made by trade ministers during the failed ministerial meeting last year, a trade envoy told Business Standard. |
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| G-14 meet yields no result after unrelenting US stand | 21-OCT-09 |
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| A meeting of senior trade officials from the newly constituted Group of 14 countries, tasked with finding solutions in the precarious Doha trade negotiations, today ended without any progress because of the United States’ unwillingness to enter into a hard bargain on various outstanding issues in market access for industrial goods and services. |
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| India must cut tariff to revive talks: US | 14-OCT-09 |
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| The United States has handed over a list of industrial products such as chemical, health care and industrial engineering items to India, China and Brazil, saying the three emerging countries must agree to eliminate tariffs on these items for any further progress in the stalled Doha trade negotiations, analysts said. |
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| D Ravi Kanth: The maze of migration | 13-OCT-09 |
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| There is a side spectacle to every Olympic defeat. President Barak Obama would have noticed it when he presented Chicago’s bid to hold the 2016 Olympics. Notwithstanding the star power he displayed in the presence of his wife Michelle during his short-three-hour-trip to Copenhagen, there was just one question posed to him. And, it came from an unexpected quarter: Pakistan. |
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| Tata Motors raises $750 million | 10-OCT-09 |
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| Tata Motors, India’s largest vehicle manufacturing company, today raised $750 million (Rs 3,487 crore, at the current exchange rate) through issuance of global depository shares (GDS) and convertible notes. The proceeds would be partly used to repay the Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR) acquisition debt. |
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| Iran agrees to put all nuke issues on the table | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Iran bowed to international pressure yesterday by agreeing to begin comprehensive negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany on all aspects of its controversial nuclear programme. |
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| D Ravi Kanth: Doha drifts again | 29-SEP-09 |
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| We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end,” is what the G20 leaders conveyed to their trade negotiators at the Pittsburgh summit last Friday. Like the previous two summits in Washington and London respectively, the latest event under the leadership of President Barak Obama failed to provide any clear direction on how to end the comatose Doha Development Agenda trade negotiations. |
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| Brazil, India to oppose EU at WTO | 22-SEP-09 |
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| Brazil would join India in invoking dispute settlement proceedings against the European Union at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Brussels’ alleged violation of global trade rules by detaining on the high seas the generic drugs exported by Indian companies to other developing countries, a senior Indian trade official has said. |
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| Doha talks stalled in Geneva despite Delhi meeting | 21-SEP-09 |
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| Key World Trade Organisation (WTO) members failed to make any progress in the stalled Doha trade negotiations last week, casting a huge cloud over the 2010 deadline for concluding the Round, several trade diplomats told Business Standard. |
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| China, Brazil worried over bilateral solutions | 03-SEP-09 |
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| Senior trade officials from China and Brazil today raised some fundamental concerns about the role of bilateral meetings to advance the Doha trade negotiations, insisting that World Trade Organization (WTO) members should stick to resolving issues multilaterally, Business Standard was told. |
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| WTO set to rule on Airbus subsidies | 02-SEP-09 |
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| In a matter of 24 hours, the United States would acquire dual and conflicting images at the World Trade Organization (WTO). From holding the status of a violator, due to its non-compliance of the WTO dispute settlement body’s recommendations in the cotton case, Washington could become the champion for correcting the civil aircraft subsidies, as provided by the European governments to Airbus today, analysts said. |
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