WTO talks end with no decision on key issues of agri, fisheries subsidies

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The negotiations at the WTO’s ministerial conference ended with no decision on key issues of India’s interest including finding a permanent solution to public food Public Stockholding (PSH) programme and on curbing fisheries subsidies that lead to over-capacity and over fishing. However, the WTO members agreed to further extend the moratorium on imposing import duties on e-commerce trade for two more years. The 13th ministerial conference (MC), which was supposed to end on February 29, got extended by a day due to the logjam but despite the four days of hectic parleys getting extended for a day, the 166-member WTO...