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WTO is Using COVID for its Expansionist Free Trade Agenda*
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Aug 14th 2020, Murali Kallummal
and Smitha Francis
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Under
the garb of removing supply chain disruptions in essential
medical goods, the WTO is trying to expand free trade
in electronic medical equipments and facilitating the
North’s agenda of consolidating the market shares of
their firms, despite knowing that it can disrupt the
production capacities of developing countries like India.
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This article was originally published in the Policy
Circle on May 1, 2020.
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