India Loses in WTO - US Chicks on their way?
India Loses in WTO - US Chicks on their way? — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.THE WTO yesterday held that India's ban on products such as poultry meat, eggs and live pigs violated several global trade laws because they were imposed without sufficient scientific evidence that the products risked spreading avian flu.
By a Notification dated 19.07.2011, India had prohibited imports from the countries reporting Notifiable Avian Influenza (both Highly Pathogenic Notifiable Avian Influenza and Low Pathogenic Notifiable Avian Influenza), certain livestock products like domestic and wild birds (including poultry and captive birds);day old chicks, ducks, turkeys, and other newly hatched avian species etc.,
The American Press went overboard with the news with the US Trade Representative proclaiming that the WTO panel agreed with the U.S. case that India lacks any scientific basis to restrict U.S. agricultural products, including U.S. poultry products.
His website proudly claimed with the above picture, This victory affirms the Administration's commitment to ensuring WTO Members play by the rules, and that America's farmers, workers and businesses get the fair shot they deserve to sell Made-in-America goods under WTO rules.
India can appeal against this decision.