The Indonesian Minister's comments assume significance as she is also a candidate for the position of Director General, World Trade Organisation.
Former Union minister Suresh Prabhu would be India's Sherpa at the 14th meeting of the world's top economies in Osaka, Japan.
Meeting will confine discussion to processes involved in building consensus among members.
The government is planning to approach the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization against frequent seizure of Indian medicines at various European ports.
India and the US will co-chair a 14-member special group on services negotiations, a move aimed at giving a boost to World Trade Organisation talks in services ahead of the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December.
India has a huge trade surplus with US - over $20 billion a year in the past five years.
However, the Appellate Body declined to make any recommendations to the WTO's dispute settlement body what India should do in the light of its ruling. The government has already removed the additional duty on wines and spirits last year. Similarly, it exempted various products from the extra duty, making the case redundant.
India resorted to 16 final anti-dumping measures in the first six months of this year compared to eight new measures by the European Union. During the same period, Indonesia took recourse to five final anti-dumping measures, followed by four each by Argentina, China and Ukraine, three each by Brazil and South Africa, and two each by the United States, Egypt and Korea, and one by Canada.
Balachandran said that he would encourage Kamala Harris like any other parent and advice her to continue the good work.
With the United States adopting protectionist policies and hiking import duties, a trade war like situation has emerged.
In a significant move to make the World Trade Organisations trade negotiations to meet the July-end deadline for a Framework Agreement, Trade Ministers of Non-Group 5 including India are meeting in Paris from July10-11.
In a major victory for India, Suppachai Panitchpakdi, director-general of World Trade Organization said on Friday that any deal to break the impasse in the contentious farm trade talks
Under these rules, telecom gear makers have to share their source codes and get their equipment tested by third-party labs accredited to the government.
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.
'Why did government not include a provision in the bills which categorically stated that no crop will be sold below the MSP in the open market?'
The government said on Wednesday that it would not give greater market access to agri-products of developed countries unless they cut down on their domestic and export subsidies.
India on Wednesday castigated a draft Doha Rules text for seeking to legalise the controversial practices of "one member" - the United States - against the "overwhelming view" of all other countries in imposing anti-dumping measures.
India has opposed a proposal by a group of industrialised countries led by the United States and the European Union at the World Trade Organization on addressing the issue of market access for industrial goods in the Doha trade negotiations.
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.
India will have to show more willingness to import, and since Biden will not encourage sale of oil and gas to bridge the gap, it means there has to be more meaningful duty reduction in other areas even if Delhi baulks at a Free Trade Agreement so soon after walking out of RCEP.
In a significant development, Asian economic giants India and China have decided to coordinate positions on contentious trade and investment issues like agriculture, Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights and public health and investment.
Stoutly opposing the move to expand the WTO agenda to include new issues, India on Monday cautioned against the pitfalls of including the Singapore issues in the work programme.
Rejecting the suggestion that India is taking a difficult stand in the World Trade Organisation talks, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath has said New Delhi only wants a multilateral trading system that corrects the existing structural flaws.
The government has taken several measures to clear the applications and that includes sanctioning of 373 additional posts in the patent wing.
Congress on launched an all out attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of "misleading" people on the WTO issue and ridiculed BJP over its "Congress phobia".
In a major victory for India, World Trade Organisation on Wednesday reversed its earlier compliance ruling on Indian bed linen dispute with the European Union.
Confederation of Indian Industry president Ashok Soota said on Friday that India should take up at the World Trade Organisation the issue of protectionism that affects natural movement of professionals across borders.\n\n\n\n
Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Saturday appreciated the Indian delegation's performance at the Tokyo ministerial meeting and said that the country had "fortified" its position on crucial issues.
The US has expressed concern over India's lack of transparency in its trade policy, as a result of which small and medium-sized enterprises have difficulties in investing and doing business in the country.
WTO bullish about success of Mexico round
The government on Thursday warned the industry of being isolated in the World Trade Organisation and overtaken by countries like China if it continued to maintain a negative and suspicious attitude rather than effectively engaging in a dialogue.
The commerce ministry has recommended the continuation of anti-dumping duty on a Chinese chemical used in food and pharma industry with a view to guard domestic players from cheap imports. In a notification, the ministry's investigation arm, the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), has said there is a "positive" evidence of likelihood of dumping of Sodium Citrate and injury to the domestic industry if the existing anti-dumping duty were to be removed.
As Trade Minister Anand Sharma resists the WTO's attempts to nix India's food security initiative, Rediff.com's Uttam Ghosh offers his perspective.
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