The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Special treatment
ONCE AGAIN, INDIA has been put on the US Special 301 `priority watch list' following an annual review by the US Trade Representative "which examined the adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property protection in approximately 74 ... More

POLITICS

India and Pakistan — Another Mission Conciliation
DURING a visit to Australia last week, organised for a group of three Indian journalists by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, we were posed an interesting question at the School of Politics of the Australian Defence Force ... More

Finding funds for development
The US-led war in Iraq and the huge task of rebuilding it from the debris could for years distort the flows of both official and private capital. The developing world, especially West Asia and North Africa, will face intense pressures in finding aid money for development and growth. More

Vitriol over protocol
IS the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, justified in making an issue of the seating arrangement at the function at which the Prime Minister, Mr A. B. Vajpayee inaugurated Phase II of the Anna International Terminal at Chennai on May ... More

WTO

Trading blind-folded
The WTO agreements have been the subject of seminars, workshops and colloquia. Yet the information on the factual situation in each member-country remains densely clouded. No country knows what and how many weapons of economic mass destruction its pa rtners in trade are accumulating, says Sharad Joshi. More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS

SEZs: Go the Chinese way
SPECIAL Economic Zones (SEZs), first proposed in the Exim Policy 2000-01 by the erstwhile Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran, are now a reality. With Export Processing Zones (EPZs) failing to help achieve the export targets, sights are on SEZs ... More

LETTERS

Revoke POTA

TN's poor score

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