The contentious issue of market access, in World Trade Organisation negotiations, will figure prominently in the discussions between Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley and visiting European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy.
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.
India on Wednesday maintained that its laws were compliant with the trade related intellectual property rights, dismissing the United States concern over New Delhi's "reluctance" to adopt TRIPS compliant patent law.
Cancun appears headed for a fiasco like Seattle with Tokyo World Trade Organisation mini-ministerial hitting roadblocks.
The World Trade Organisation agreed on Monday to an Indian demand for a probe into special trade deals granted by the European Union to countries fighting drug trafficking.
Ahead of the UNCTAD XI meeting at Sao Paulo, Brazil, from June 13-18, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath on Monday held substantive discussions with Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to fine tune India's strategy on farm issues including livelihood concern
National Association of Software and Service Companies said on Thursday that the Indian government should aggressively negotiate on services at the World Trade Organisation.
Industry sources said the meeting could be preceded by a business-to-business meeting among the industry leaders from these countries.
Indian elections and subsequent political developments have come as a glitch to the process of evolving a new proposal on the contentious farm sector negotiations at the World Trade Organisation.
Agriculture Minister Rajnath Singh said the failure of developing countries to secure any major concessions from the developed world on agricultural subsidies at the recently-concluded WTO would not have any adverse fallout on the domestic sector.
It called the draft text 'totally unacceptable, insensitive and unbelievable'.
European Union is not contemplating signing free trade agreement with India in the near future and will focus on completion of contentious World Trade Organisation negotiations including agriculture and Singapore issues
Commerce Minister Arun Jaitley will lead a high-power delegation to the WTO ministerial beginning at Cancun in Mexico on September 10 in which India and other developing countries are expected to lock horns with the US and EU on several issues.
World Bank on Wednesday asked developed countries to work out a "trade deal" including removal of trade barriers to accelerate growth in the developing nations.
Nepal on Friday became the 147th member of the World Trade Organisation with the protocol of accession coming into force.
The United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick has invited key trade ministers including India's and European Union's for a meeting in London this month end to find ways to move forward in the World Trade Organisation.
The quota regime in textiles and clothing is unlikely to be extended beyond the deadline of 2005, a senior World Trade Organisation official said on Tuesday.
India on Wednesday said it had scored a significant gain at the World Trade Organisation in a dispute with European Community over tariff preferences extended by the latter.\n\n\n\n
Emphasising on greater transparency at the World Trade Organisation, both India and China have said no last minute surprises should be sprung on negotiators.
Divestment Minister Arun Shourie will lead the Indian delegation to the two-day World Trade Organisation mini-ministerial in Montreal beginning on Monday, which would try to narrow down differences on contentious issues.
The government will convene a meeting of political parties prior to the WTO ministerial in Cancun to elicit their views on issues, especially agriculture subsidy, to be discussed at the conference, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday.
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