India may be represented by Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley at an informal conclave of key trade ministers convened by the United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick in London this week to break the impasse in the WTO talks.
India and Brazil have opposed tooth and nail the tariff reduction formula proposed by United States and European Union at the World Trade Organisation with the just concluded agriculture negotiations ending without making any headway.
Negotiations on Singapore issues, that have remained a taboo for India, will be the main discussion point at the World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting in Cancun next month.
With the product patent regime all set to take over the existing process patent system in January 2005 in concurrence with the world trade organisation regulations, experts say the new regime would boost research and development activities in the cou
Bangladesh said on Tuesday that India should fulfill certain conditions like duty free access for 118 items and removal of non-tariff restrictions, before it can start talks on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement.
Resuming trade talks after a gap of five years, India and Japan on Friday committed themselves to enhance the miniscule $3.5 billion bilateral trade and resolved to address impediments like the rigid labour laws.
The government on Thursday approved the broad strategy for World Trade Organisation services negotiation under which India would be willing to open up several services
India and the United Kingdom on Monday expressed keenness to boost bilateral trade and emphasised on the need to end the World Trade Organisation stalemate.
India has submitted its offers at the World Trade Organisation to open up various services including health, telecom, engineering, construction, book-keeping and accounting, travel and tourism, maritime and computer-related services.
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Monday denied that the ministry was unhappy with the WTO Framework Agreement.
With hectic negotiations continuing at the World Trade Organisation to meet the July 30 deadline for Framework Agreement, India on Thursday called for revision in the draft text to address its concerns and make it acceptable.\n\n\n\n
In a bid to break the deadlock on multilateral trade issues after the collapse of WTO's Cancun Ministerial, G-20 developing countries on agriculture will hold a meeting with EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy on December 12.
The 72-year-old master strategist ensured that the Congress's internal conflict ended and took on the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shivraj Singh Chouhan -- the state's longest ever serving chief minister.
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