India’s Sugar Issue at the WTO
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What is the issue about?
- 3 countries (Australia, Brazil and Guatemala) complained that India’s domestic support and export subsidy for the sugar industry are inconsistent with WTO’s provision under Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) and GATT’s (the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs) Article XVI which deals with subsidies.
- The complaint was that India provides support exceeding the de minimis level (10% of total value of production) to sugarcane producers. This, they said, is inconsistent with
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