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Business News/ News / World/  WTO rules against India over US meat imports ban
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WTO rules against India over US meat imports ban

The appellate body dismissed India's challenge against the earlier ruling on several grounds

The ruling added that the prohibitive measures violated articles 6.1 and 6.2 of the agreement. Photo: AFPPremium
The ruling added that the prohibitive measures violated articles 6.1 and 6.2 of the agreement. Photo: AFP

Geneva: India on Thursday lost a major dispute with the US after the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) appellate body upheld an earlier ruling against New Delhi’s avian influenza-related measures imposed on poultry meat, eggs and live pigs supplied by American producers.

The WTO appellate body dismissed India’s challenge against the earlier ruling on several grounds, prominent among them being the measures’ lack of scientific basis and thorough risk assessment.

Last year, a three-member dispute settlement panel had pronounced that New Delhi’s avian influenza measures were not based on international standards and scientific assessment. India’s measures “are arbitrary and unjustifiably discriminate between members where identical or similar conditions prevail" and “constitute a disguised restriction on international trade", it said.

The appellate body said the panel was right to dismiss the measures because they arbitrarily and unjustifiably discriminated between members where identical or similar conditions prevailed. The measures were found to be significantly more trade-restrictive than required for the level of protection from risk. Also, they were found to have been applied beyond what was necessary to protect human and animal life and health.

India’s measures violated several core provisions of WTO’s pact on sanitary and phyto-sanitary provisions, the appellate body said, adding that the panel was correct in concluding that the measures lacked scientific basis as New Delhi was unable to provide conclusive evidence.

More importantly, the WTO body concurred with the panel that India’s measures violated Article 3.1 of the Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary Agreement as they were not based on international standards. The ruling added that the prohibitive measures violated articles 6.1 and 6.2 of the agreement.

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Published: 04 Jun 2015, 08:03 PM IST
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