ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role of India in the trade negotiations in General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the backdrop of the evolving development strategy and trade policy of India since its independence. It analysis the consequences for the Indian economy, of the agreements reached and regimes put in place as a result of the WTO negotiations. The chapter traces the history of India's role in the international trading system, starting from the GATT, covering the Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations and going through the negotiations in the various Ministerial Meetings of the WTO. India's position on selected negotiating issues has been analysed in die context of the importance and implications of these issues for India's development. The issues concerned are agriculture, services, non-agricultural market access, the Implementation Issues, Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, regional trade agreements, and the Singapore Issues.
