Africa reinforces its position few hours before WTO Ministerial Conference

Africa would not adopt rules and decisions that would restrict governments from formulating policies to industrialise, create jobs and move up in …

India to file 16 cases against the US for violating WTO treaties, informs Sitharaman

India believes that certain renewable energy programmes of the US are inconsistent with WTO provisions, says minister

Security begins in the stomach

Snooping on the market

Glaxo reaps GATT's gifts

Carrot and stick

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Environmental trade-off

The US signs a new trade agenda and seeks stricter control over its intellectual property rights in India

Patent parley

The Rao government has proved itself unconvincing in handling the Opposition on GATT-related patent reforms

A dose of patent power

In this GATT era, Indian drugs and pharmaceutical scientists have belatedly begun to focus on drug, rather than on process, development

GATT goes sour

Socio-political riddle

Fishy business

The US policy to restrict tuna imports hampers free trade, says the GATT panel report

Some farmers laud Dunkel Draft

A section of India's farmers emphatically supported the Dunkel Draft, saying it contains just what they have been demanding for years.

Loggers, environmentalists at loggerheads

By lifting a ban raw wood export and levying a huge tax on it instead, officials in Jakarta have come under fire from both loggers and …

Brazil for home milk

Win some, lose some

The Uruguay round of GATT resulted in a severe backlash by small farmers all over the world, but made exporters and big farmers happy.

Row over ruling

A WTO ruling raps the US for its unfair trade practices and the failure to stick to environmental rules on clean fuel standard

Yen for ecofriendly grain

Japan will import Indian rice only if it is free from harmful chemical residues

Patent prejudice

This verbally-loaded anti-GATT film is a shrill intellectual harvest that tends to over-romanticise the small organic farmer

Patent jugglery

Trading nature

Mass movement against Dunkel draft

Forty-five bodies have joined hands to mobilise protest campaigns against changes in laws which will comply with GATT proposals for a new …

Alternative bill

Beijing makes all-out bid to join GATT in '93

Despite indications that it may take longer, China is doggedly pursuing its goal of becoming a GATT member this year.

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