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I want to know the Research Ares of Centre for WTO Studies of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade IIFT so can you tell me?

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The Centre for WTO Studies of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade IIFT was set up in the year 1999 to be a permanent repository of WTO negotiations-related knowledge and documentation.

The Centre has conducted a robust research programme with a series of papers in all spheres of interest at the WTO.

It is currently engaging itself in an exercise to back its research with an equally robust publication programme.

The Centre has also created a specialised e-repository of important WTO documents, especially related to India, in its Trade Resource Centre.

The Centre has been actively interfacing with industry and Government units as well as other stakeholders through its Outreach and Capacity Building programmes by organizing seminars, workshops, subject specific meetings etc.

The Centre thus also acts as a platform for consensus building between stakeholders and policy makers.

Research activities-

The research activities carried out by the Centre can be classified into two broad categories:

First, those that are mainly demand driven, especially relating to current WTO and RTA negotiations.

These include requests from the Government in which the Centre has been providing technical inputs, especially in the following areas:

a. Agriculture
b. NAMA
c. Services
d. TRIPS
e. Subsidies and Anti-Dumping.

Focus Areas-

Agriculture
Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
Anti dumping, Safeguards
Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
BRICS
Government Procurement
Intellectual Property Rights
Trade and Environment
Labour Issues
NAMA
Overall Trade Policies
Subsidies including Fishery Subsidies
Services
Trade Facilitation
Technology Transfer
Trade & Investment
Trade in Global Value Chains
WTO Disputes

Contact-

Centre For WTO Studies
7th Floor, IIFT Bhawan ,
B-21,Qutub Institutional Area,
New Delhi - 110016
Tel: 91-11-26965124,26965300,26966360
Ext-709,710,721,722
Fax: 91-11-26563321
Email id: cws@iift.ac.in, cws@iift.edu