Chennai: India and the US are contesting seven disputes at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in areas including poultry, steel and export incentives, Parliament was informed on Monday.
These seven cases ‘pertain to poultry and poultry products from the US, countervailing duties against India’s export of steel products, measures against import of solar cells and modules under National Solar Mission,’ Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, C R Chaudhary, said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
The other cases include the US’s Sub-Federal Renewable Energy Programmes, United States’ measures concerning non-immigrant visas, India’s export promotion schemes and United States’ tariff hike on steel and aluminium products, he said.
The US has challenged certain export promotion schemes of India and ‘There will be no effect to the GST refunds provided to the exporters under the GST Act as GST issues have no linkage with this dispute,’ he added. India considers that it does not provide any WTO non-compliant subsidies for exports, he added.
The Minister said India’s trade deficit with Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) members stood at $105 billion in 2017-18.