India, US resolve WTO food security row -Remya Nair and Elizabeth Roche

-Livemint

India, US resolve differences over public stockholding for food security, clearing way for WTO trade facilitation deal

New Delhi: India and the US have resolved differences over public stockholding of foodgrains with the US agreeing to an indefinite "peace clause" pending a permanent settlement-a development that makes possible the most significant global deal since the 1990s.

US support for the massive public food stockholding programme also signals a political victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who seems to have won the deal without any major concessions-at least, not to public knowledge.

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