WTO standoff is over: #India, US reach agreement to push through Bali package

After months of stalemate, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that India and US had reached an agreement with regard to public food stock holding and it was expected to help resolve the present deadlock in the World Trade Organisation on account of India’s refusal to ratify it.

The Commerce Minister told reporters that India had resolved its concerns regarding its public food security programmes with the US and it was expected to solve the impasse at the World Trade Organisation.