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FSA Support Issue at WTO Ministerial Conference, Bali
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....SA Support Issue at WTO Ministerial Conference, Bali <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 11-12-2013<br><BR>The provisions of the National Food Security Act which relate to providing subsidised food ....
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....to the poor are fully compatible with WTO rules. It is only the procurement-related support that has to be accounted for in the calculation of trade-distorting support as per WTO rules. Such support h....
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....as to be kept within certain limits. The original proposal by the G-33 coalition of developing countries in the WTO, of which India is also a member, proposed that acquisition of stocks of foodstuffs....
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.... from low-income or resource poor producers for supporting such producers or for fighting hunger and rural poverty should be excluded from the calculation of trade-distorting support. WTO Members coul....
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....d, however, agree to discuss only an interim mechanism. The Indian delegation was mandated to negotiate the terms of such an interim mechanism. During the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the WTO held ....
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....in Bali, Indonesia from 3 to 7 December 2013, WTO members agreed to an interim mechanism which will be available till Members agree on a permanent solution on this issue for adoption by the Eleventh M....
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....inisterial Conference of the WTO. The information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Dr. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan in Rajya Sabha today.<BR> News - Press rel....
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....ease - PIB....