Modi is leading a big government and business delegation to the summit in Davos, the first Indian prime minister do so in 21 years, aiming to showcase
India as a fast-growing economic power and a potential driver of global growth.
His comments on rising trade barriers came ahead of an address to the forum later this week by US President Donald Trump, who has championed inward-looking
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"The result of this is that we are seeing new types of tariff and non-tariff-based barriers being imposed. Bilateral and multilateral trade
negotiations appear to have come to a halt.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks at the Opening Plenary during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos,
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"There is a slowdown in cross-border financial investments and the expansion of (the) global supply chain appears to have slowed down."
Trump has been pushing an "America First" policy of getting businesses to invest in the United States instead of overseas, potentially affecting the
growth prospects of emerging economies such as India dependent on foreign
investment.
During his 2016 election campaign, Trump blamed globalisation for ravaging US manufacturing jobs as companies sought to reduce labour costs by relocating to
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India, one of the world's fastest growing major economies and a growing contributor to pollution, has said it is keen to honour its commitment to clean
up the environment despite Trump pulling out of the Paris accord on cutting
carbon emissions.
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BRUSSELS, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) has finedU.S. smartphone chip supplier Qualcomm 997 million euros (1.23billion U.S. dollars)
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Qualcomm is the world's largest supplier of long-term evolution(LTE) baseband chipsets, which enable smartphones and tablets toconnect to cellular networks
and are used both for voice and datatransmission.
The Commission said Qualcomm illegally shut out rivals from themarket for LTE baseband chipsets for over five years, therebycementing its market dominance.
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2016.
The agreement made clear that Qualcomm would cease thesepayments if Apple commercially launched a device with a chipsetsupplied by a rival company.
"This meant that no rival could effectively challenge Qualcommin this market, no matter how good their products were. Qualcomm'sbehavior denied consumers and
other companies more choice andinnovation and this is a sector with a huge
demand and potentialfor innovative technologies. This is illegal under EU
antitrustrules," she added.
Other chip manufacturers active in this market, such as Intel --the largest supplier for chipsets used in computers -- has tried tochallenge and compete
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The Commission opened its investigation in July 2015 and sent astatement of objections to Qualcomm in December, followed by aletter sent in February 2017
setting out additional factualelements relevant to the final decision.
The fine represents 4.9 percent of Qualcomm's turnover in2017.
Qualcomm said in a press release on Wednesday that it stronglydisagreed with the European Commission's decision and wouldimmediately appeal it to the General
Court of the EuropeanUnion.
"We are confident this agreement did not violate EU competitionrules or adversely affect market competition or Europeanconsumers," said Don Rosenberg,
executive vice president andgeneral counsel of Qualcomm. "We have a strong case
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