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WTO: India resolute on food security -Arun S

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published Published on Nov 23, 2017   modified Modified on Nov 23, 2017
-The Hindu

At Ministerial Conference next month, will push back on ‘severe’ curbs on right to give price subsidies

At the upcoming meeting of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) highest decision-making body, India will not agree to severe restrictions on its right to give price subsidies to farmers through the Minimum Support Price (MSP) to procure grains from them for food security purposes, according to highly-placed official sources.

The WTO’s Ministerial Conference is slated to take place at Buenos Aires in Argentina next month.

“Food security and protection of low-income and resource-poor farmers are top priority items for India [at the WTO meet], and we will hold our ground to protect our interests to the maximum extent possible,” an official privy to the developments said. Currently, an interim mechanism called the ‘Peace Clause’ is in place, per which WTO members had agreed not to challenge developing nations at the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism if they breached the cap of the product-specific domestic support (which is 10% of the value of production).

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The ‘Peace Clause’ is available to developing nations, including India, till a permanent solution is found to public stockholding for food security purposes. Official sources said India would fight to ensure that at least the ‘Peace Clause’ is made the permanent solution, and will not accept any ‘terribly stringent or onerous’ conditions. However, the ‘Peace Clause’ is learnt to be difficult to invoke even in its current form because prior to using it, the country concerned will have to first admit that it ‘is breaching’ or ‘is about to breach’ the ceiling entitlement to give product-specific domestic support.

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The Hindu, 22 November, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/business/wto-india-resolute-on-food-security/article20628543.ece


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