India

India is the target of the first World Trade Organization dispute launched by the Trump administration, which on Tuesday requested consultations with New Delhi over a series of programs it says are prohibited export subsidies.

A mini-ministerial that India is planning is “still in the process of being developed.”

“The United States does not understand how India can claim compliance while it continues applying WTO-inconsistent measures.”

India has charged that the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body cannot authorize the United States to suspend trade concessions in a dispute over India’s national solar program because India has complied with the rulings and recommendations in the case and the U.S. did not follow WTO rules in requesting the right to retaliate.

The United States will seek World Trade Organization authorization to retaliate against India for failing to comply with an Appellate Body decision that found its massive national solar power program contained discriminatory domestic content requirements for preferential power purchasing contracts from the government.

BUENOS AIRES -- World Trade Organization members have struck an 11th-hour deal to renew a moratorium on e-commerce duties as well as a moratorium that prevents members from bringing non-violation cases under the WTO’s intellectual property agreement, sources said.

BUENOS AIRES – The World Trade Organization’s 11th ministerial will come to a close without the issuance of a ministerial declaration after the U.S. and India locked horns over whether to include a reference to the Doha Development Agenda, sources here said.

“We think it’s important that we begin to develop some means of countering that with alternative financing measures, financing structures.”