World Trade Organization
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World Trade Organization delays key meeting amid COVID variant concerns
World | Nov 27, 2021, 08:22 AM ISTThe MC12 conference at WTO headquarters in Geneva was set to take up key issues like a long-awaited agreement on subsidies for fisheries, seen as a major way to prevent overfishing in the world’s seas, and an effort to waive patent and other intellectual property protections linked to COVID vaccines.
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No US chicken legs, please! India tells WTO
Jan 28, 2015, 02:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: India has challenged a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling asking it to lift ban on the import of cheap chicken legs from the United States.India's objection is aimed at helping check shipment of
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IMF lauds WTO decisions on TFA, food security
Nov 29, 2014, 02:42 PM ISTWashington: The IMF has said that the WTO decisions on the trade facilitation agreement and public stock holding for food security purposes would provide an opportunity for advancing multilateral trade negotiations in other areas which
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Vladimir Putin orders retaliation against Western sanctions
World | Aug 06, 2014, 06:52 AM ISTMoscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that he has ordered the government to think over retaliatory measures against Western sanctions, the media reported."Political tools of pressure on the economy are unacceptable and contradict
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EU, Australia-led group unite against India at WTO
World | Jul 25, 2014, 08:04 PM ISTWashington: Unconvinced by India's line that it will not sign the Trade Facilitation Agreement at WTO unless its food security concerns are addressed, a large block of global powers have joined hands against New Delhi
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WTO rejects India's challenges against steel import laws: US
World | Jul 14, 2014, 11:54 PM ISTWashington: The US today claimed that the WTO has rejected most of India's challenges against American trade remedy laws and determinations regarding imports of certain steel products from India.According to US Trade Representative Michael Froman,