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India for fast implementation of WTO issues

India said on Friday that World Trade Organisation must ensure faster progress on implementation issues of interest to the developing countries to arrive at a positive outcome within a specified timeframe and prepare a roadmap for the remaining issues ahead of next year's WTO ministerial at Cancun, Mexico.

Participating in a session on implementation, special and differential treatment at the informal WTO Trade Ministers' meeting at Sydney, Australia, India's Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Shourie said achieving significant progress within a tight timeframe in these important areas was necessary for the credibility of the multilateral trading system.

Pointing out that there was a feeling in many developing countries that progress in their areas of interest was slow compared to areas like market access, Shourie said this gap should be bridged and all implementation provisions of the WTO agreement should be made precise, effective and operational as decided at Doha.

Faster progress on implementation and Special and Differential Treatment Issues must be ensured so that positive results on issues of priority to India and other developing countries are achieved by the December deadline

On Special and Differential Treatment, India has submitted three papers individually or jointly with others covering as many as 11 S&D proposals relating to sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, import licensing, subsidies and countervailing measures, and dispute settlement understanding.

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