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Selection of Lawyers, Law Firms and Subject Experts to Represent India in WTO Disputes and ISDS Cases

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..... Selection of Lawyers, Law Firms and Subject Experts to Represent India in WTO Disputes and ISDS Cases
News and Press Release
Dated:- 12-7-2019

The Department of Commerce defends India's interests on trade issues in WTO. Department of Economic Affairs coordinates ISDS cases and these are individually taken up by relevant line Ministries/ Departments. Department of Commerce empanels l .....

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..... aw firms through a process of selection committee based on subject expertise in international trade and WTO law. A rotational policy is adopted while engaging law firms to ensure that law firms get opportunities to improve their expertise. Think tanks such as Centre for Trade and Investment Law and Centre for WTO Studies are also consulted regularly on India's disputes to improve expertise on suc .....

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..... h issues. At present, India is involved in fourteen WTO disputes (Annex-I), all of which are being handled by domestic law firms. In one of these disputes, the expertise of the Geneva based international law organization 'Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL)', which assists developing countries on WTO law was engaged to guide the domestic law firm in a WTO dispute. There is no ISDS case pending with .....

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..... Department of Commerce. Annex-I Dispute No. Dispute Name Complainant DS430 India - Measures Concerning the Importation of Certain Agricultural Products United States DS456 India - Certain Measures Relating to Solar Cells and Solar Modules United States DS518 India - Certain Measures on Imports of Iron and Steel Products Japan DS541 India - Export Related Measures United States DS .....

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..... 579 India - Measures Concerning Sugar and Sugarcane Brazil DS580 India - Measures Concerning Sugar and Sugarcane Australia DS581 India - Measures Concerning Sugar and Sugarcane Guatemala DS582 India - Tariff Treatment on Certain Good in the Information and Communications Technology Sector European Union DS584 India - Tariff Treatment on Certain Goods Japan DS585 India - Additional .....

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..... duties on certain products from the United States United States Dispute No. Dispute Name Complainant DS436 United States - Countervailing Measures on Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from India India DS503 United States - Measures Concerning Non-Immigrant Visas India DS510 United States - Certain Measures Relating to the Renewable Energy Sector India DS547 United States .....

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..... - Certain Measures on Steel and Aluminium Products India This information was given by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, PiyushGoyal, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
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