With rising levels of food and livelihood insecurity among poor farmers, many developing members at the WTO are demanding special safeguard mechanism (SSM) for shielding their agriculture from import surges and price declines. Most of developing members do not have any trade instrument under the...

Section 1: WTO and Indian Agriculture -- Chapter 1. Indian Agriculture under WTO and FTAs: An Assessment -- Chapter 2. Fisheries Negotiations at the WTO: Small Bait for Large Catch -- Chapter 3. Revisiting the Question of Price and Income Support to Agriculture -- Chapter 4. Transparency and WTO...

Developing members at the WTO are faced with shrinking policy space to support their agricultural sector owing to the restrictive provisions of the Amber Box. Contrastingly, most developed members are able to provide high levels of product-specific support without breaching their commitments, on...

This study has critically examined the issue of Cotton subsidies in USA as well made a comparative analysis of cotton sector between USA and India in the background of USA claim that African Cotton producers' plight was not due to the trade-distorting subsidies of USA but was on account of...

The US has challenged the product-specific support to foodgrains by China in the WTO claiming that China has breached its commitments under WTO by providing more than US$100 billion as product specific support to wheat, rice and corn in 2015. The main issue is the price support backed...