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Kuala Lumpur: The government will utilise data collected from 217 departments and agencies for government-related programmes, including targeted subsidies, to rectify the low registration rate with the Central Database Hub (Padu), says communications minister Fahmi Fadzil.
The four-day meeting of trade ministers of the 164-member global trade rule-making body WTO begins on February 26 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. MC is the highest decision-making body of the WTO. The experts also said that this is a proposal of a group of countries, which is called a plurilateral agreement or joint statement initiative, which is not accepted by a number of nations including India and South Africa.
The National Fishworkers Forum, in a letter to the Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal, has also appealed to the Centre to resist at the upcoming World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations any proposals to eliminate subsidies for small and traditional fishworkers
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The ethanol industry is pushing back on a California proposal to require sustainability requirements for biofuel feedstocks.