India, US to discuss trade issues Wednesday

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 21:12

Issues related to WTO, solar energy and visas are expected to figure at a meeting between senior trade officials of India and the US in the national capital on Wednesday.

WTO strikes 'landmark' $1.3 trillion deal to cut tariffs on IT products

Last Updated: Friday, July 24, 2015, 23:22

Major exporters of information technology on Friday agreed to cut global tariffs on more than 200 products, in the first such deal struck by the World Trade Organization in nearly two decades.

India should protect its own interest on ITA: NASSCOM

Last Updated: Friday, July 24, 2015, 22:58

Nasscom Friday said there was a need to protect the country's interests in services and technology even as WTO members ratified the need to change the 18-year old Information Technology Agreement (ITA).

Efforts on at WTO for positive outcome on food security issue

Last Updated: Friday, July 24, 2015, 21:35

Developing countries including India are making all efforts in the WTO for a positive outcome on the food security issue, parliament was informed Friday.

WTO members try to seal trillion-dollar IT trade deal

Last Updated: Friday, July 24, 2015, 20:27

World Trade Organization (WTO) members met in Geneva on Friday trying to finalise a deal to cut tariffs on $1 trillion of information technology products from video games to medical equipment.

104 new trade-restrictive steps in Oct-May, WTO raises concern

Last Updated: Thursday, July 23, 2015, 21:32

The WTO members imposed 104 new trade-restrictive measures during seven months to May, which the world trade body said was cause of "concern".

World trade registers modest growth in Jan-Mar of 2015: WTO

Last Updated: Thursday, June 25, 2015, 18:27

World trade grew by a modest 0.7 percent during January-March quarter of this year, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said.

Slight deceleration in trade restrictive steps in G-20: WTO

Last Updated: Monday, June 15, 2015, 23:26

The G-20 economies witnessed a "slight deceleration" in application of new trade-restrictive measures, with average number of such steps imposed per month falling to the lowest since 2013, a WTO report said Monday.

India loses poultry case against US at WTO

Last Updated: Thursday, June 4, 2015, 21:00

India has lost a case at the WTO, with an appellate body at the global trade organisation Thursday ruling that Indian ban on American poultry product imports was "inconsistent" with the international norms.

Investment routed from Mauritius to India for tax benefits: WTO

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 18:17

Tax treaty benefits are prompting investors to route their investments from Mauritius into India, WTO has said.

WTO verdict on India's solar dispute with US soon

Last Updated: Sunday, April 26, 2015, 14:14

"This will be the final meeting of the panel. After that, its ruling will come," an official said adding "we have kept our fingers crossed on the ruling".