India

The United States continues to move toward retaliation against India in a WTO dispute over measures that once prohibited imports of U.S. poultry due to fears of avian flu, even as India claims -- for the third time -- that it has resolved the issues in line with earlier rulings.

India believes 11 state-level renewable energy programs in the U.S. breach the same World Trade Organization commitments that the U.S. successfully argued New Delhi had contravened in its own national solar mission, potentially complicating the defense of these programs for the United States, according to legal experts.

The United States scored a definitive victory over India at the World Trade Organization with the Appellate Body dismissing every argument New Delhi forwarded in defense of domestic content requirements for solar power producers.

India has taken the first step toward dispute settlement at the World Trade Organization by requesting consultations with the U.S. over eight state-level renewable energy programs that allegedly have domestic content requirements and contain subsidies in violation of WTO rules.

The most recent meeting of the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body saw the United States and India again engage in a back-and-forth over whether Washington's move to retaliate against India for measures restricting U.S. poultry exports due to avian flu fears is appropriate considering India's claim of compliance in the dispute, the lack of a compliance panel to examine India's new measures and the absence of a sequencing agreement between the two countries.

Russia on Sept. 2 avoided an injury determination in an antidumping and subsidization case involving cold-rolled steel, but the U.S. International Trade Commission found similar products from Brazil, India, South Korea and the United Kingdom did injure or threaten to injure the U.S. steel industry.