A WTO agenda for Anand Sharma: What has the country got in return for greater flexibility on special safeguards mechanism (SSM) and NAMA, especially from the US? Unless that's clear, marrying what Kamal Nath said with what Anand Sharma is doing is difficult

For relatively weaker countries, multilateral agreements are preferable. India, thus, wants a successful Doha Work Programme (DWP). Reactions to WTO (and other external) liberalisation are functions of degree of domestic reforms, which ensure competitiveness. Our problem is agri reforms has been virtually non-existent since 1991, with a specific issue for dry-land and small-farmer agriculture. Now that DWP is getting off the ground, our first task should be to push this agenda, remembering that DWP implementation commitments won't be overnight. That is, WTO provides a trigger for reforms that are in any case required.