GLOSSARY
• Agricultural product Defined for the coverage of the WTO’s Agriculture Agreement, by the agreement’s Annex 1. This excludes, for example, fish and forestry products. It also includes various degrees […]
FUTURE OF WTO
In the face of unilateral tendencies, the rise of tariff & non-tariff trade barriers and protectionism, the principles of free trade & liberalism envisioned in GATT are seriously being challenged […]
MAJOR DISPUTES INVOLVING INDIA AT THE WTO
India is involved in a number of trade disputes at the WTO. US has challenged India’s export subsidy schemes like MEIS, citing that the country has crossed the US$ 1,000 […]
MAJOR WTO AGREEMENTS & IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA
India is governed by a number of major agreements like Agreement on Subsidies & Countervailing Measures, GATS, SPS, TRIPS, TRIMS, Agreement on Agriculture & Agreement on Textiles, as a member […]
MAJOR WTO MINISTERIAL CONFERENCES
The Ministerial Conference is attended by trade ministers and other senior officials of 164 member countries of the WTO. It is the trade forum’s highest decision making body, and under […]
GENESIS OF THE WTO
The imprints of trade and commerce began to be felt on the relations between nations and major economic phenomena began to have ripple effects on the international political landscape. In […]
HISTORY OF GLOBAL TRADE
The history of human civilisation owes its richness to trade and interactions with other cultures. The Indus Valley Civilization (one of the first human civilisations of the world) for instance, […]
INDIA & the WTO
HISTORY OF GLOBAL TRADE The history of human civilisation is owes its richness to trade and interactions with other cultures. The Indus Valley Civilization (one of the first human civilisations […]
