Right time for India to resolve trade disputes with US

The Biden administration can now move forward to strengthen the WTO dispute settlement process by clearing the way for appointment of requisite number of members to its appellate body

Last Tuesday, the United States and the European Union agreed to end their trade dispute over government subsidies to aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus. The spirit behind the deal was best summed up by Katherine Tai, the US Trade Representative. “We have resolved these disputes because we are putting away our litigation briefcases,” she said.

Soon after taking over as US President this January, Joe Biden showed his commitment to strengthening multilateral institutions by rejoining the World Health Organization and Paris climate change accord. He also cleared the way for the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the seventh director-general of