2022-06-19 15:43:50
What were the concerns raised by India at WTO:
On issues of Fisheries and E-commerce: Revmoval of subsidies will hurt fishermen. So, India demanded to make extensive exceptions on a 20-year negotiation to cur harmful government fishery subsidies.
India is seeking broad exemptions for its fishing industry, including a
25-year phase-in period and a 200-nautical-mile exclusion for its artisanal anglers.
On E-commerce: India fears that new rules could provide the pretext for unfair mandatory market access to foreign companies. This will hurt the rapidly growing domestic e-commerce sector, which is still developing in India.
On Food: WTO should renegotiate subsidy rules for government-backed food purchasing programs aimed at feeding poor citizens in developing and poor countries.
India wants assurances that its
public stock-holding program, which buys exclusively from the nation’s farmers and has exported in the past, cannot be challenged at the WTO as illegal.
On vaccines: India wants to waive IP rights for vaccines and extend the WTO ban on digital duties
Special and differential treatment (S&D) must continue, as such treatment has been a treaty-embedded and non-negotiable right for all developing members
Principles are sacrosanct: Ensure that multilateral rule-making processes are neither bypassed nor diluted. The principles of
non-discrimination, predictability, transparency and most importantly, the tradition of decision-making by consensus need to remain sacrosanct.
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