Commerce minister Piyush Goyal meets US trade representative Katherine Tai, discusses WTO dispute settlement reforms
Sep 21, 2022
New Delhi [India], September 21 : Union Minister for Commerce Piyush Goyal met with the US trade representative Katherine Tai and held discussions on World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Reforms and exchanged ideas on ways to strengthen the mechanism making it more efficient.
The meeting came ahead of the G20 Summit which will be hosted by Indonesia in Bali in the month of November.
In a tweet, Minister Goyal wrote, "Participated in a discussion on WTO Dispute Settlement Reform convened by Ambassador Katherine Tai, on the sidelines of the G20 Ministerial Meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Exchanged views on ways to strengthen the WTO dispute settlement mechanism to make it more accessible & efficient."
India's G-20 Presidency next year will be a golden chance for the country to correct the long-standing anomalies that go against the developing countries, especially in the domain of agriculture and food subsidies, SBI Research said in its latest report. India is going to hold the G20 presidency from December 1, 2022, to November 30, 2023.
Piyush Goyal also held a meeting with the Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis and discussed on expediting Free Trade Agreement negotiations which will benefit both sides. 
"Met Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis on the sidelines of G20 Indonesia. Both sides are keen to expedite FTA negotiations with mutually beneficial results," he added.
Earlier, Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said the UK is keen to stick to the Diwali deadline for India-UK free trade agreement and both countries are working towards it. He referred to the passing away of Queen Elizabeth II and said "as we are expanding our engagements, the UK is at a cusp".
"Two days ago, I received a letter from the UK again reiterating that they want to stick to the Diwali deadline (for the India-UK Free Trade Agreement)," Goyal said at an event here.
Speaking of India's engagements and the quest to become self-reliant, Goyal said, "If we don't engage with the international market, we are the losers...Today the whole world is talking of Atmanirbhar...There is no power that can stop us from becoming a developed nation in the next 25 years...The world wants to engage with us, the world has more confidence in us than we have."
Earlier, in the day, British High Commissioner to India, Alex Ellis said that India and the United Kingdom have the high ambition of completing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by Diwali this year.
