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Topic: WTO

Race to rescue WTO draws eight nominees from Mexico to Moldova

WTO’s next leader will have to focus on rebuilding trust and credibility, rebooting its negotiating agenda and restoring its paralyzed dispute-settlement system.

Farmers unhappy as govt decides to lower maize & milk import duty amid falling local prices

The government has allowed import of 5 lakh MT of maize and 10,000 MT of milk under reduced duties, cites commitment to WTO. 

Paris deal to WHO, the 11 organisations Donald Trump’s US has pulled out of, weakened

From weakening WTO and NATO to pulling out of several UN organisations, Donald Trump has now targeted at least 11 global cooperation bodies or pacts.

World Trade Organisation chief Roberto Azevedo plans to step down early

The 62-year-old Brazilian has served as the WTO’s director-general since September 2013 and his second four-year term began in September 2017.

WTO says global trade collapse may be worst in a generation

While trade will suffer, a rebound will be possibly only if businesses and consumers view the pandemic as a temporary, one-time shock, the WTO said.

EU, India tiff over tariffs heats up at WTO, even as summit gets deferred

EU urges WTO to set up dispute panel on the issue, but while India has blocked the first move, Brussels plans to approach the trade body again.  

Davos 2020 will debate how to deal with ‘Peak Decade’, from globalisation to central banks

Politicians, investors & executives in Davos will debate whether we are witnessing peaks in key drivers of the world economy.

Why US-China trade war truce will not end protectionist impulse

The world needs multilateral institutions that acknowledge protectionism rather than free trade as the deeper & more enduring reality of global economic history.

US files WTO appeal against Indian steel after neutralising that very process

Trump administration has appealed against WTO ruling that found US didn’t adequately amend series of illegal tariffs on Indian carbon steel products.

How to decode Donald Trump’s trade brain, bluffs and bluster

Despite Trump’s comments on the US-China trade deal and the tougher rhetoric between Beijing and Washington, talks on the first stage continue.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.