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WTO's vaccine patent waiver may have little impact on ground now: Industry

Serum Institute says while patent waivers for Covid-19 vaccines are 'encouraging', demand for vaccines today is declining

WTO approves package of trade agreements, prompting cheers from delegates

At one stage, a series of demands from India appeared set to paralyse talks but accommodations were found, trade sources said

Top Headlines: WTO members reach deal, advance tax collection up 48% in Q1

The members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), for the first time in a decade, finalised a historic deal at 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12). Read more in our top headlines

For the first time in a decade, WTO members reach historic deal at Geneva

The four-day meeting was extended by a day

WTO members could finalise a trade deal in 'next couple of hours'

Negotiations on fisheries are going on and members are quite close to a deal with carve-outs for India and other developing countries, said an Indian trade negotiator on condition of anonymity

Battered WTO on the verge of 'dead end' heading into final day of talks

India reiterated Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal's view that any WTO vaccine agreement must also waive IP rights for Covid-19 diagnostic tests and therapeutic drugs, according to the readout

Special treatment is non-negotiable right for all developing nations: Goyal

Special provisions provided to developing nations in all the agreements of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) through special and differential treatment are the non-negotiable matter for the emerging economies and they should be continued, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday here. The gaps between the developing and developed members have not yet narrowed down in decades but in fact have widened in many areas. And because of that S&DT (Special and Differential Treatment) provisions continue to be relevant," he said. "S&DT is a treaty-embedded and non-negotiable right for all developing members," he added. The minister was speaking in the thematic session on WTO reform. As part of the proposed WTO reforms, developed countries are saying that developing countries are bypassing rules in the name of self-proclaimed development status in the WTO. On the other hand, developing nations, including India, are demandeurs for special and differential ...

WTO members make final push for trade deals, with eyes on defiant India

WTO DG Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told the more than 100 ministers present that time was running out and that they should "go the extra mile" to converge on the full range of issues

Hopes for grand redemption of WTO fade as India sticks to fishing demands

Piyush Goyal told a meeting of delegates Tuesday that it would not bend on demands for extensive exceptions on a 20-year negotiation to curb harmful government fishery subsidies

One cannot tread the path of trade on an empty stomach: Goyal at WTO meet

India strongly pitched to the WTO members for finding a permanent solution to the issue of public stock holding of grains, stating that one cannot tread the path of trade on an empty stomach

WTO Ministerial: Can't agree to unfair text on fisheries deal, says Goyal

India wants to protect subsidies of several million low-income, poor traditional fishermen as it is a matter of livelihood for them

WTO MC12: India seeks a carve out to export foodgrains to poor countries

India proposes that we carve out an exemption for govt-to-govt purchases between countries so that we can support countries in distress, particularly during some humanitarian crisis, said Goyal

WTO nears food security pledges; India, Egypt, Sri Lanka hold out

WTO members sought to forge agreements on food security to ease strained supply and sharply higher prices that the war in Ukraine have worsened with only India, Egypt and Sri Lanka withholding support

G-33 differs from India's stance on export restrictions on food items

The grouping met on the sidelines of the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Sunday.

At WTO MC12, India bats for test and treat strategy under TRIPS waiver

Twenty months ago, India and South Africa had urged WTO member nations to agree to temporarily waive some sections of TRIPS to ramp up production of vaccines, and diagnostics to combat Covid

WTO MC12 Day 1: Fishing subsidies to food crisis, here's what was discussed

The WTO chief acknowledged that the global trade body needs reform, adding that the road will be bumpy and rocky and 'there may be a few landmines'

India talks tough at WTO, says 'will not buckle under any pressure'

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal cornered WTO for failing to protect the health of the people of poor nations during Covid-19 pandemic

Indian fishing community protests against WTO's proposal to curb subsidies

Members of the fishing community from several coastal areas of India protested against the WTO proposal to curb fishery subsidies as it was not responsive to the demands of the developing nations

WTO MC12: Piyush Goyal backs people-first approach to world trade

Seeks a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security

G-33 members must work together for fair, balanced outcome at WTO: Goyal

The minister was speaking at the G-33 Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference at Geneva