The meet takes place under the shadow of global inflation, supply chain disruptions, lingering pandemic, slowing growth momentum, and the Russia-Ukraine war
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
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
Despite making all the correct noises, the WTO members have failed to walk the talk as evident in divergent positions on food security
The Centre's comments are significant as the G7 countries have criticised India's ban on wheat exports
The 12th Ministerial Conference starts on Sunday to discuss matters under the ambit of multilateral trade rules
Nations with an open and free trade policy will make the most of the recovery in global trade
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WTO rules on foodgrains must be updated
Developing countries, including India, have been battling for policy space to impose Customs duties on electronic transmissions
'We want to support less developed, friendly and neighbouring countries to the extent we can'
The current draft is unfairly constraining the less developed nations that don't have the capacity and resources to support their industry and farmers
Government officials said India may not agree with the proposal as it will restrict its policy space to deal with domestic food security concerns
The 12th ministerial conference, the highest decision-making body of the WTO, is scheduled to meet on June 12-15 in Geneva
Indonesia last week banned the export of crude and refined palm oil amid global shortage of the edible oil
The Ministerial Conference (MC) is the highest decision making body of the 164-member Geneva-based multilateral body
Food stock in different parts of the world is dwindling due to the war (in Ukraine)
WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that food price growth that's happening as a result of the situation in Ukraine may prompt unrest among undernourished people in poverty-stricken countries.
China thinks it will be able to replace the post-1945 system, but history shows that is not going to happen.
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala welcomed breakthrough among four member countries - India, South Africa, EU US - on a waiver of TRIP agreement for the production of Covid-19 vaccines.