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India must put forward a positive agenda towards a result-oriented MC13 in the October meeting. While pushing for outcomes on many of our priority areas, including dispute settlement system, a permanent outcome on public stockholding for food security purposes, disciplining agriculture subsidies in the west etc., there is a need to take the entire Membership along.
Trade experts and some members of civil society have urged India not to ratify the fisheries subsidies agreement agreed upon by the World Trade Organisation members in Geneva last year and instead commence talks for a comprehensive pact. Members of
The signatories of the letter include the National Fishworkers Forum, National Platform for Small Scale Fish Workers, All India Fishers and Fisheries Workers' Federation, All India Union of Forest Working People, Biswajit Dhar, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, Delhi; Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Samiti (MASS), Gujarat; and Kamala Menon from Delhi Science Forum.
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Issues which India is expected to raise include fisheries subsidy agreement, reforms in WTO's dispute settlement body, moratorium on e-commerce, agriculture-related matters, among others
MC12 came as a shot in the arm for the WTO and breathed fresh life into the moribund institution. While success breeds success, we must be careful to not burden the WTO with unrealistic expectations for MC13