The Commerce Ministry will carry out internal brainstorming on handling of tricky issues that spilled over from the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) in Abu Dhabi last week, particularly the growing pressure for mainstreaming of select-group initiatives on areas such as investment facilitation, MSMEs, gender and e-commerce, officials said. “While there was no decision in … Read more
The 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi collapsed in the late hours of March 1, more than a day after its scheduled closure, failing to produce an agreement in either fisheries or agriculture. But, countries agreed to extend the e-commerce moratorium on customs duties for two years for one last time. Also read: WTO … Read more
The Department of Fisheries on Monday announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform to help traditional fishermen, fish farmers producer organisations, entrepreneurs from fisheries sector to buy and sell their products through the e-market place. Also read:CIFT to focus on fishery based entrepreneurship … Read more