Brussels, 13/11/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 13 November, the US and India announced that they had resolved their WTO dispute on public stockholding for food security purposes. This was blocking implementation of the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) that was concluded at the WTO ministerial conference in Bali at the end of 2013.
The two parties agreed that the Indian food security programmes will not be challenged by the WTO until a “permanent solution” to this issue “has been...