India at the WTO: Fisheries Pact, MC14 and Trade Review
India has moved from holdout to party on the WTO's Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies: on 20 July 2026 it deposited its instrument of acceptance, becoming the 123rd member to join the pact that bans harmful marine-fishing subsidies. A day later its 8th Trade Policy Review opened in Geneva (21 and 23 July 2026), where a record USD 863.1 billion export tally and reforms such as GST and UPI drew comment from dozens of members. This single card follows India at the WTO across three threads: the thin MC14 ministerial of March 2026, where the 1998 e-commerce duty moratorium lapsed; the fisheries agreement now binding on India; and the five-yearly peer review of its trade policy.
- WTO
- MC14
- Fisheries Subsidies Agreement
- Piyush Goyal
- e-commerce moratorium
- Yaounde
- public stockholding
- S&DT
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