The agenda for the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) includes negotiations on agriculture services, non-agricultural (industrial goods) market access, trade-related intellectual property rights, trade & environment, trade facilitation, and other issues covered under the Doha Ministerial Mandate.

The Government, from time to time, has held wide-ranging consultations with the Governments of States and Union Territories, representatives of political parties, farmers' associations, trade and industry and other non-governmental bodies. Government has also sponsored a series of stakeholders' conferences and India's position in the ongoing negotiations has been evolving on the basis of these consultations.

To safeguard the interests of Indian agriculture in the ongoing negotiations on agriculture, the G-20, of which India is a Member, has sought elimination of all forms of export subsidies by a credible end-date, and substantial reductions in all forms of trade-distorting support provided mainly by the developed countries to their agriculture sector. At the same time, India, through the G-20 and the G-33 alliance on Special Products and the new Special Safeguard Mechanism, has sought exemption from reductions on the de-minimis support provided by developing countries including those that allocate almost all such support to subsistence and resource poor farmers. In respect of market access, the G-20 has proposed that tariff reduction commitments by developing countries should be not be more than two-thirds those of developed countries, and to make integral special and differential treatment for developing countries in all aspects of the negotiations.