- India may not approve the trade facilitation protocol at an important WTO meeting; it does not simultaneously endorse its concerns about food subsidies to feed its poor, said official sources
- India is being pressurized by the developed countries to drop its demand on food subsidy and support endorse the protocol for trade facilitation agreed upon by WTO members in Bali
- India will be at risk if its drops its demands as WTO members can take a legal action in case if subsidy exceeds 10% of the total production value of a basic agricultural commodity
- The deadline for signing trade facilitation protocol is another week; New Delhi fears if that this limit is breached to meet its programme for feeding the poor
- The main reason India insisted at Bali for an agreement on both matters was to increase the limit on food subsidy and endorsing the trade facilitation protocol
- Along with India some other developing countries are facing the same situation and cannot decide within a week to find a solution not to breach WTO caps of food subsidy
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/india-keen-on-wto-endorsement-on-food-subsidy/article6243549.ece