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India softens stance to hammer out a "no harm" trade deal at WTO meet

Piyush Goyal said perhaps this was the first ministerial where India set the agenda. "We were on the front foot. We were telling other countries what needs to be done"

WTO's vaccine patent waiver may have little impact on ground now: Industry

Serum Institute says while patent waivers for Covid-19 vaccines are 'encouraging', demand for vaccines today is declining

For the first time in a decade, WTO members reach historic deal at Geneva

The four-day meeting was extended by a day

WTO provisionally agrees to extend e-commerce tariff moratorium: Report

The prospect of ending the moratorium, which has exempted data flows from cross-border tariffs since 1998, had raised major concerns among businesse

WTO members could finalise a trade deal in 'next couple of hours'

Negotiations on fisheries are going on and members are quite close to a deal with carve-outs for India and other developing countries, said an Indian trade negotiator on condition of anonymity

Johnson's ethics adviser says UK PM has put him in 'odious' position

"A deliberate breach, or even an intention to do so, would be to suspend the provisions of the code to suit a political end," Geidt said in his letter to the PM. "I can have no part in this."

Special provisions for emerging markets are non-negotiable: Goyal at WTO

Pushes for reforms in appellate body, which is currently non-functional

WTO Ministerial: Can't agree to unfair text on fisheries deal, says Goyal

India wants to protect subsidies of several million low-income, poor traditional fishermen as it is a matter of livelihood for them

Nations getting 'half-baked deal' on TRIPS waiver: Goyal at WTO meeting

Addressing a meeting with co-sponsors of TRIPS waiver proposal, union minister Piyush Goyal said that the way nitpicking is being done by some countries, it only reflects their insincerity

At WTO MC12, India bats for test and treat strategy under TRIPS waiver

Twenty months ago, India and South Africa had urged WTO member nations to agree to temporarily waive some sections of TRIPS to ramp up production of vaccines, and diagnostics to combat Covid

Low expectations from the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference

The meet takes place under the shadow of global inflation, supply chain disruptions, lingering pandemic, slowing growth momentum, and the Russia-Ukraine war

Unfortunately, WTO couldn't respond with alacrity to control Covid: Goyal

India ramped up its supplies of medical products to different countries to deal with Covid, but WTO could not react with alacrity and members need to bow their heads in 'shame', Piyush Goyal said

Latest LIVE: Eyeing Guj Assembly polls, AAP names 850 new office bearers

The active cases comprises 0.10 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.66 per cent. Stay tuned for more

At Ministerial Conference, WTO faces litmus test on food security issue

Despite making all the correct noises, the WTO members have failed to walk the talk as evident in divergent positions on food security

Govt set to pitch for grain sales from public stockholding at WTO meet

The Centre's comments are significant as the G7 countries have criticised India's ban on wheat exports

WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference: Food security, vax equity to top agenda

The 12th Ministerial Conference starts on Sunday to discuss matters under the ambit of multilateral trade rules

International trade remains important

Nations with an open and free trade policy will make the most of the recovery in global trade

Best of BS Opinion: WTO rules on foodgrains, urban mining, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

For an enduring solution

WTO rules on foodgrains must be updated

WTO June meet: India not likely to create a hurdle on e-com moratorium

Developing countries, including India, have been battling for policy space to impose Customs duties on electronic transmissions