European Commission has claimed that its agriculture proposal submitted to the World Trade Organisation is fair and a win-win with sufficient safeguards to protect food security of developing countries including India.
With the new patent regime impending, the focus on the exports market can save Indian companies from any unlikely event post-2005.\n\n\n\n
The government on Monday said the progress in majority of the issues covered by the Doha Work Programme has been uneven
Describing the Cancun WTO meet as a historic turn, Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that India will not blame anyone for the collapse of the meeting.
The tyre industry has urged the Central Government for recast of India's Free Trade Agreements
'New Delhi and Washington are now on the same page, on dealing with growing Chinese assertiveness, across the entire Indo-Pacific region,' notes Ambassador G Parthasarathy, Chancellor, Central University of Jammu.
Holding that transparency, predictability and upholding the rule of law are essential for better ties, a senior American diplomat today said the US is keen to restart work on a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with India for deepening economic relationship.
India will welcome two trade missions in 2015 focused on meeting its infrastructure needs with US technology and services.
The government would also take steps to promote exports and restrict non-essential imports, said Jaitley
Kamal Nath will need to watch his back because given the slender majority, there is no doubt that the BJP will try to topple his government.
India will look to play a key role in the APEC, EU and Africa regions to increase its competitiveness.
However, worries on inadequate import and issues for the FTA pacts.
'Life will not improve overnight; it will happen in a gradual manner.'
The visit by President Obama has already set the stage for further policy reforms in India, said Josh Rosenberg of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI).
'There is a law that prevents the government from diluting its equity in the PSBs below 50 per cent.' 'That law has to be amended and given the parliamentary arithmetic of the political parties, it is not as simple to do that.'
Special 301 Report expresses concern over weak IPR laws, to conduct reviews.
The Congress, however, dubbed Swamy as the 'undeclared spokesman' of Modi.
According to government data, the prices have still not crossed the MSPs in some mandis.
The CBEC will itself be rechristened as the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs and will supervise GST and Customs activities and provide the government policy inputs.
Even as India continues on the priority watch list of the Office of the US Trade Representative, strong voices from Washington, DC, have spoken out in favour of India, reports Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com.
The top 10 in terms of the number of MSMEs is dominated by the larger states with Uttar Pradesh at the top.
'In terms of growth rate, India is better than China.'
India's economy could also suffer some ill-effects without necessarily triggering retaliation via higher tariff barriers against Indian goods, says Devangshu Datta.
Events to keep an eye out for...
Jaishankar said that the situation in the region has now stabilised and lots of restrictions have been rolled back including the operationalising of landlines and mobile towers and resumption of economic activity.
Silicon Valley can be replicated, but this will only be achieved so long as fresh talent is welcomed by both our countries - a move that will surely spark a billion ideas and discoveries.
US President Barack Obama has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to be chief guest at the Republic Day ceremony in January 2015.
China continues to hold the top slot.
Modi is the first Indian premier to visit the Silicon Valley and meet its top CEOs
Unfazed by the stalemate over the Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti issue, government has lined up a heavy legislative agenda in Parliament this week including a bill seeking to replace coal blocks allocation ordinance.
These concrete steps should include measures to address any number of pressing concerns, including prohibitively high tariffs and discriminatory forced localization requirements that are blocking US exports of a wide range of products.
US election results may not reverse Indian markets' bearish trend, says Devangshu Datta
The RBI is working to nudge large foreign banks with 30 or more branches in India to get incorporated locally.
