UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — India Becomes a Party to the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies by Depositing its Instrument of Acceptance

Q1. India became a party to the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies by accepting the Protocol of Amendment that inserts the Agreement into which one of the following components of the WTO Agreement?

  • A. Annex 1A (Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods)
  • B. Annex 1B (General Agreement on Trade in Services)
  • C. Annex 1C (Agreement on TRIPS)
  • D. Annex 2 (Dispute Settlement Understanding)

Q2. The WTO describes the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies as only the ____ agreement to be concluded multilaterally at the WTO since the organisation's inception.

  • A. first
  • B. second
  • C. third
  • D. fourth

Q3. The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies is described as directly contributing to Sustainable Development Goal Target 14.6. Target 14.6 specifically calls for which one of the following?

  • A. Prohibiting certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, and eliminating subsidies that contribute to IUU fishing
  • B. Effectively regulating harvesting and ending overfishing and illegal fishing to restore stocks in the shortest time feasible
  • C. Conserving at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas through protected-area networks
  • D. Minimising and addressing the impacts of ocean acidification through scientific cooperation

Q4. The mandate for WTO members to negotiate disciplines on fisheries subsidies was originally given by ministers at which one of the following?

  • A. Doha Ministerial Conference, 2001
  • B. Marrakesh Ministerial meeting, 1994
  • C. Hong Kong Ministerial Conference, 2005
  • D. Bali Ministerial Conference, 2013

Q5. Consider the following pairings of WTO Ministerial Conferences with their host cities. Which one of the pairings is NOT correctly matched?

  1. 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) — Geneva
  2. 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) — Abu Dhabi
  3. 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) — Yaoundé
  4. 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11) — Nairobi
  • A. 1 only
  • B. 2 and 3
  • C. 4 only
  • D. 1 and 4

Q6. Which one of the following statements correctly describes the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization?

  • A. It is the topmost decision-making body of the WTO, composed of all members and normally meeting once every two years
  • B. It is the standing body of ambassadors based in Geneva that conducts the WTO's day-to-day work between higher-level meetings
  • C. It is the WTO's permanent Secretariat, headed by the Director-General, which frames binding rules for members
  • D. It is the body responsible for adjudicating and settling trade disputes among WTO members