India sees quick solution to row with EU, US over alcohol duties
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India said Wednesday it expected a quick solution to a major row with the European Union and the United States over alcohol duties set as high as 550 percent.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 8 (IPS) - The European Union and India have signed an  unprecedented âstrategic partnershipâ deal amidst concerns over  India's human rights record.
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An agreeement to allow India to import nuclear fuel from the U.S. arouses protests at both ends of India's political spectrum
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The European Union's health chief urged the alcoholic drinks industry on Thursday to step up its fight against the growing problem of alcohol abuse.
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The European Union said Wednesday it will decide soon whether to impose trade sanctions on the United States after receiving authorization to do so from the World Trade Organization
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India and Nepal were close to finalising a treaty on Wednesday for faster extradition of terror suspects to help tackle a Maoist insurgency in the Himalayan kingdom that is threatening to spill into India.
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THE HAGUE: India will have to wait for European Union endorsement of its claim for permanent membership of the UN Security Council.
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New Delhi, Nov 5 (UNI) India and the European Union will enter into a strategic partnership focussing on multilateral, bilateral and global issues at the Fifth India- EU summit at the Hague on November eight, ...
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NEW YORK: Indiaâs Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the complicated problems between Pakistan and India would take time for resolution.
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The Hague, Nov. 8:India and the European Union today decided to crank up their relationship by entering into a âstrategic partnershipâ to deepen cooperation on key international issues of globalisation
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India gave a cool response Tuesday to fresh proposals by Pakistan&#39;s president to end a decades-old dispute over Kashmir, saying it expected
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BRUSSELS: India is all set to open talks on Monday to forge a strategic partnership with the European Union, a status so far restricted to just five big countries.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived on Sunday night to participate in the India-European Union summit during which a proposal for a strategic partnership will be finalized.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. government official played down reports that the U.S. is considering taking the European Union to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the imposition of new duties on high-tech imports such as flat-screen monitors and digital set-top boxes. âThe U.S. has expressed its concern about the E.U. proposal to apply duties to sophisticated products covered by the Information Technology Agreement (ITA),â the official, based at the U.S. embassy in Brussels, said in a telephone interview Friday. He said taking the issue to the WTO, the worldâs trade arbitrator based in Geneva, is still a possibility. âOur options are open,â he said, but added that many concerns about trade matters do not end up as WTO cases. The ITA was signed by most countries producing IT products in 1997. It sets tariffs on goods designed for businesses at zero in order to help spur economic growth. However, as the price of items such as flat-screen monitors has fallen in recent years, they are increasingly being bought by consumers. The E.U. has started to reclassify some equipment as consumer goods, which require import tariffs of around 10 percent. Applying a tariff to new types of goods could potentially lead to higher prices, unless the vendor or manufacturer shoulders the additional cost. The European Commission, the E.U.'s representative body on trade matters, defended its actions. The E.U. classifies products on the basis of "objective criteria," Peter Power, the Commissionâs trade spokesman in a statement. "U.S. claims of E.U. re-classifying products in violation of ITA commitments are unfounded,â he said, adding that the EU "respects the spirit of the ITA" when classifying new technologies. TheÂ E.U. drew sharp criticism from the U.S.Â this week over its decision toÂ dismiss Microsoft's appealÂ of the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it. The U.S. government official, who did not wish to be identified, denied Friday that the U.S. concerns over tariffs are a reaction to that decision. "This is a long-standing issue for the U.S. government. We've been making these comments about the ITA since 2006," the official said.
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The EU suspends a complaint to the World Trade Organization about India's import tariffs on beer, wine and spirits.
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India and the United States pressed  one another to watch out for poor countries&#39; interests in  global trade talks, but struck a conciliatory note less than a  week after acrimony erupted in the WTO&#39;s Doha round.
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will raise with the leadership of Britain and the European Union next week India's concerns over cross-border terrorism in the backdrop of recent evidence that ...Comment