Isolationist: India can ill afford to let its Bali stand derail the WTO process

India is finding itself increasingly isolated at the WTO's ninth Ministerial Conference in Bali, where the two main points of contention relate to agricultural subsidies and trade facilitation — India's problems are concentrated in the first of the two areas. Commerce Minister Anand Sharma has dug his heels in to defend India's right to run its food security and farm support programmes, arguing that even a "peace clause" — which protects India from any complaint by WTO members for a few years — is not acceptable. 

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