India

The tenth U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum concluded on Oct. 20 without a major breakthrough, leaving some parts of the U.S. industry asking yet again for commercial bilateral dialogues between the two countries to produce more tangible outcomes.

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.