India protests against US-EU move at WTO

[SBUS-CXK]

The US and the EU, along with some other nations sought to impose stringent notification requirements on India. (Photo: AFP)
India protests against US-EU move at WTO
2 min read . Updated: 15 Apr 2019, 12:10 AM ISTD Ravi Kanth

• Many developing countries rallied around India and South Africa, saying there is no place for such a proposal in WTO
• The countries feel it is unfair to impose harsh requirements on developing countries facing deep capacity constraints, and are reminiscent of colonial era rules

GENEVA: India, South Africa and China are among those that have pushed back against a joint US-EU proposal to call out and punish countries that have not followed notification requirements under various World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements. The countries feel it is unfair to impose harsh requirements on developing countries facing deep capacity constraints, and are reminiscent of colonial era rules.

As part of proposed reforms to the global trade body, the US and EU, along with Japan, Canada, Australia, Costa Rica, Argentina and Taiwan, on 11 April, sought to impose stringent notification requirements, including financial penalties, on countries for failure to comply.

At the meeting of WTO’s Council on Trade in Goods (CTG), the US justified the proposal on grounds of “chronic low level compliance with existing notification requirements under many WTO agreements (by members)". It seeks to allow “a counter-notification of another member concerning notification obligations".

Under this practice, deemed controversial by many countries, a WTO member can issue a counter-notification against a member, claiming the latter had breached its commitments under that specific WTO-agreement.

Recently, the US had filed counter notifications claiming New Delhi’s subsidy schemes, especially minimum support prices for rice, wheat and cotton, breached India’s scheduled subsidy commitments to the WTO.

India, however, rejected the US stand saying it was based on flawed assumptions and erroneous practices. The counter-notification by the US on Indian grains and cotton was based on data from American farm lobbies, which reckon India as a major threat to its subsidized-exports to countries, said a trade envoy, who asked not to be named.

The sponsors also proposed “administrative measures" in case a member “fails to provide a required notification by the deadline provided under an agreement". These would kick in after a member fails to provide notifications within one year of the deadline, and would include barring representatives of the erring country from presiding over WTO bodies and even financial penalties.

Administrative measures will also include naming and shaming provisions such as “the Member shall be designated as a Member with notification delay; (ii) representatives of the Member will be called upon in WTO formal meetings after all other Members have taken the floor, before any observers; and (iii) when the Member with notification delay takes the floor in the General Council, it will be identified as such."

In an overwhelming rejection of the proposal, many developing countries rallied around India and South Africa, saying there was no place for such a proposal in the 164-member inter-governmental trade body.

According to an Indian official who attended the meeting, India rejected the proposal saying it is “difficult to agree to such a proposal which provides for penalties and administrative actions in case of default, rather than making an effort to understand the difficulties, a large number of developing members are facing." India also sought to know why the sponsors were silent on complying with the notifications on trade in services, particularly filing notifications on the movement of short-term professionals under Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, and in trade-related intellectual property provisions.

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[SBUS-CXK]

@Get Ya Wig Split It seems that some Americans have forgotten me.

 

[khansaheeb]

India facing reality, they are just there to fulfil capacity demands for their colonial masters.

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

India is a new advanced space power, not a 3rd world country anymore. They shouldn't benefit from 3rd world exemptions. Lets see how far their economy gets without charity status

 

[Chhatrapati]

India facing reality, they are just there to fulfil capacity demands for their colonial masters.

India is a new advanced space power, not a 3rd world country anymore. They shouldn't benefit from 3rd world exemptions. Lets see how far their economy gets without charity status

The irony here is Pakistanis ride on the cases won by India in such places. Like the Basmati patent case. Or Turmeric patents etc... etc...

 

[Turingsage]

India facing reality, they are just there to fulfil capacity demands for their colonial masters.

If that were so than India China and Africa would not be fighting against such manipulation of WTO rules by EU and the US. India has always championed support for subsistence farmers in the third world including Pakistan, Its Pakistan which keeps mum and fails to utter a single word against the farming monopolists of the first world. It does this even when its own farmers are being sacrificed rather than utter a word of protest against Trump. They are slaves and will always be slaves.

India is a new advanced space power, not a 3rd world country anymore. They shouldn't benefit from 3rd world exemptions. Lets see how far their economy gets without charity status

So is China and yet China and India are in the same camp protecting small subsistence farmers. India receives NO FARMING EXEMPTIONS from the US or the EU but its docile little slave, Pakistan does on its textile trade.

 

[khansaheeb]

So is China and yet China and India are in the same camp protecting small subsistence farmers. India receives NO FARMING EXEMPTIONS from the US or the EU but its docile little slave, Pakistan does on its textile trade

Sorry to remind you but Indian farmers are in a hole and burn themselves due to the injustice THEY are suffering :-

 

[Turingsage]

In Pakistan farmers are all large landowners who saw the writing on the wall at independence time when congress promised land reforms and to protect their vast holdings they invoked religion and got a million people killed.
They poisoned the people of the sub-continent for eternity and will cost hundreds of millions of more deaths for generations to come.
Farmers in India got land but they also reproduced, dividing their holdings for their progeny to the point where for some farming is unsustainable.
Farmers believe they can get a middle class livelihood from a tenth of an acre of land and the government will always subsidise the price of fertilisers and buy their bags of wheat at 3 times the international prices, They already believe they do not have to pay any taxes and consider this a birthright.
India will protect small farmers at the WTO as will China and Africa. Pakistan will not.

 

[52051]

When Dotard finally figured out China is not someone he could possibly messed with, he will have to pick on little guys, that's expected, and that's why he love to pick india now.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

If that were so than India China and Africa would not be fighting against such manipulation of WTO rules by EU and the US. India has always championed support for subsistence farmers in the third world including Pakistan, Its Pakistan which keeps mum and fails to utter a single word against the farming monopolists of the first world. It does this even when its own farmers are being sacrificed rather than utter a word of protest against Trump. They are slaves and will always be slaves.



So is China and yet China and India are in the same camp protecting small subsistence farmers. India receives NO FARMING EXEMPTIONS from the US or the EU but its docile little slave, Pakistan does on its textile trade.

Friend. Believe me. On global influence... India is far from reaching China's level.

 

[crankthatskunk]

In Pakistan farmers are all large landowners who saw the writing on the wall at independence time when congress promised land reforms and to protect their vast holdings they invoked religion and got a million people killed.
They poisoned the people of the sub-continent for eternity and will cost hundreds of millions of more deaths for generations to come.
Farmers in India got land but they also reproduced, dividing their holdings for their progeny to the point where for some farming is unsustainable.
Farmers believe they can get a middle class livelihood from a tenth of an acre of land and the government will always subsidise the price of fertilisers and buy their bags of wheat at 3 times the international prices, They already believe they do not have to pay any taxes and consider this a birthright.
India will protect small farmers at the WTO as will China and Africa. Pakistan will not.

This is hogwash. My friend my granddad and the extended family practically owned most of the "Douabe" land around "Hindon" north, north east of Dehli right up to Meerut. You very well know, how expensive that land is now and worth trillions of rupees. Unfortunately, it is now all confiscated by Indian Government.

Despite the land and other family precious jewels, going back for few centuries my family still decided to work for creation of Pakistan vigorously with Jinnah and others. My granddad was on personal speaking terms with Jinnah and was educated at the same esteem places where Jinnah did. Liaquat Ali Khan was from one such family too, with massive land holdings.

Pakistan was created by such people not by landowners of Pakistan, who in the saying of some Pakistanis, "Angrazo ke kutte nihlatte the".

I got one of my first cousins still in India, because my young auntie who was newly married within the family at the time of independence wasn't allowed to leave India by her In laws. They stayed over.

The are among few Muslims which are still influential in India.

If you want to confirm it, on A34 (Road to Meerut) there is a huge house, near Ghaziabad end, it has 4 "Minars with old style Guns" fitted on them. That belongs to father of one of my Auntie lived in Glasgow, she has now died. Her family still in possession of that house.

Let me also add, at the time of independence my Dad was a young man, he has seen and observed "Gandhi and Nehru" from very close quarters during independence.

He performed as a Captain, in a force created by Jinnah at the time of creation of Pakistan. He was "Aligarian" and studied with some of the very famous people in Pakistan. One of ex-president of Pakistan was his senior at Aligarh University.

He performed the duties of protecting the trains leaving for newly created Pakistan. For few months at the time of independence he constantly risk his life to protect and save other Muslims' lives from Hindu and Sikh thugs who were attacking Muslims conveys.

Don't mind me saying it, but I know history of Indo Pakistan very well, my family had lived through it.

I did have a picture of my Dad sitting next to Jinnah as a very young kid aged 7/8, while my granddad sitting next to Jinnah on a Chair. Just two of them and two children (my dad and uncle) sitting on the floor. He also had a picture with Jinnah as a young man at the time of independence with full militia uniform and a gun.

Unfortunately, I have misplaced those pictures during the house build projects. Otherwise I would have shared it here.

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

This is hogwash. My friend my granddad and the extended family practically owned most of the "Douabe" land around "Hindon" north, north east of Dehli right up to Meerut. You very well know, how expensive that land is now and worth trillions of rupees. Unfortunately, it is now all confiscated by Indian Government.

Despite the land and other family precious jewels, going back for few centuries my family still decided to work for creation of Pakistan vigorously with Jinnah and others. My granddad was on personal speaking terms with Jinnah and was educated at the same esteem places where Jinnah did. Liaquat Ali Khan was from one such family too, with massive land holdings.

Pakistan was created by such people not by landowners of Pakistan, who in the saying of some Pakistanis, "Angrazo ke kutte nihlatte the".

I got one of my first cousins still in India, because my young auntie who was newly married within the family at the time of independence wasn't allowed to leave India by her In laws. They stayed over.

The are among few Muslims which are still influential in India.

If you want to confirm it, on A34 (Road to Meerut) there is a huge house, near Ghaziabad end, it has 4 "Minars with old style Guns" fitted on them. That belongs to father of one of my Auntie lived in Glasgow, she has now died. Her family still in possession of that house.

Let me also add, at the time of independence my Dad was a young man, he has seen and observed "Gandhi and Nehru" from very close quarters during independence.

He performed as a Captain, in a force created by Jinnah at the time of creation of Pakistan. He was "Aligarian" and studied with some of the very famous people in Pakistan. One of ex-president of Pakistan was his senior at Aligarh University.

He performed the duties of protecting the trains leaving for newly created Pakistan. For few months at the time of independence he constantly risk his live to protect and save other Muslims' lives from Hindu and Sikh thugs who were attacking Muslims conveys.

Don't mind me saying it, but I know history of Indo Pakistan very well, my family had lived through it.

I did have a picture of my Dad sitting next to Jinnah as a very young kid aged 7/8, while my granddad sitting next to Jinnah on a Chair. Just two of them and two children (my dad and uncle) sitting on the floor. He also had a picture with Jinnah as a young man at the time of independence with full militia uniform and a gun.

Unfortunately, I have misplaced those pictures during the house build projects. Otherwise I would have shared it here.

nice, we own lahore airport.

You can ask alvi

 

[fitpOsitive]

The US and the EU, along with some other nations sought to impose stringent notification requirements on India. (Photo: AFP)
India protests against US-EU move at WTO
2 min read . Updated: 15 Apr 2019, 12:10 AM ISTD Ravi Kanth

• Many developing countries rallied around India and South Africa, saying there is no place for such a proposal in WTO
• The countries feel it is unfair to impose harsh requirements on developing countries facing deep capacity constraints, and are reminiscent of colonial era rules

GENEVA: India, South Africa and China are among those that have pushed back against a joint US-EU proposal to call out and punish countries that have not followed notification requirements under various World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements. The countries feel it is unfair to impose harsh requirements on developing countries facing deep capacity constraints, and are reminiscent of colonial era rules.

As part of proposed reforms to the global trade body, the US and EU, along with Japan, Canada, Australia, Costa Rica, Argentina and Taiwan, on 11 April, sought to impose stringent notification requirements, including financial penalties, on countries for failure to comply.

At the meeting of WTO’s Council on Trade in Goods (CTG), the US justified the proposal on grounds of “chronic low level compliance with existing notification requirements under many WTO agreements (by members)". It seeks to allow “a counter-notification of another member concerning notification obligations".

Under this practice, deemed controversial by many countries, a WTO member can issue a counter-notification against a member, claiming the latter had breached its commitments under that specific WTO-agreement.

Recently, the US had filed counter notifications claiming New Delhi’s subsidy schemes, especially minimum support prices for rice, wheat and cotton, breached India’s scheduled subsidy commitments to the WTO.

India, however, rejected the US stand saying it was based on flawed assumptions and erroneous practices. The counter-notification by the US on Indian grains and cotton was based on data from American farm lobbies, which reckon India as a major threat to its subsidized-exports to countries, said a trade envoy, who asked not to be named.

The sponsors also proposed “administrative measures" in case a member “fails to provide a required notification by the deadline provided under an agreement". These would kick in after a member fails to provide notifications within one year of the deadline, and would include barring representatives of the erring country from presiding over WTO bodies and even financial penalties.

Administrative measures will also include naming and shaming provisions such as “the Member shall be designated as a Member with notification delay; (ii) representatives of the Member will be called upon in WTO formal meetings after all other Members have taken the floor, before any observers; and (iii) when the Member with notification delay takes the floor in the General Council, it will be identified as such."

In an overwhelming rejection of the proposal, many developing countries rallied around India and South Africa, saying there was no place for such a proposal in the 164-member inter-governmental trade body.

According to an Indian official who attended the meeting, India rejected the proposal saying it is “difficult to agree to such a proposal which provides for penalties and administrative actions in case of default, rather than making an effort to understand the difficulties, a large number of developing members are facing." India also sought to know why the sponsors were silent on complying with the notifications on trade in services, particularly filing notifications on the movement of short-term professionals under Mode 4 of the General Agreement on Trade in Services, and in trade-related intellectual property provisions.

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India must tell world looters that how much gold she has... Now India will know that every move against Pakistan is basically to keep both India and Pakistan under tight control.

 

[crankthatskunk]

nice, we own lahore airport.

You can ask alvi

I don't know if you joking or not.
But I have a Dogar friend, Pakistani government is planning to take over more of his agricultural land for almost peanuts for road extensions and other facilities in the suburb of Gujrat.
The guy is in the process to lose almost Rs 1 bn worth of land for peanuts. He is trying frantically if he can stop the compulsory purchase by Pakistan government.

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

I don't know if you joking or not.
But I have a Dogar friend, Pakistani government is planning to take over more of his agricultural land for almost peanuts for road extensions and other facilities in the suburb of Gujrat.
The guy is in the process to lose almost Rs 1 bn worth of land for peanuts. He is trying frantically if he can stop the compulsory purchase by Pakistan government.

theres nothing you can do, take it to the high court if you feel you have a case.

or use military links, at least you must know a DC