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India, US decide to engage in talks in good faith to resolve dispute over steel import duty
Jan-27-2020

India and the US have decided to engage in talks in good faith to sort out the dispute over American import duties on certain Indian steel products, wherein Washington is yet to fully comply with the WTO rulings. The WTO dispute resolution body has ruled against the US in this case stating that the high duty imposed by America on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India was inconsistent with various provisions of the WTO's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. The US agreed to resolve the matter amicably as the appellate body of the WTO's dispute settlement mechanism has become dysfunctional since December 2019.

America has failed to fully comply with a six-year-old ruling of the WTO's dispute panel over import duties on certain Indian steel products which has endorsed India's belief that not only the practices followed by the US, the law itself violates WTO agreements. The compliance panel has found that the US has not complied with the rulings and recommendations of the dispute panel. India has dragged the US in WTO in 2012, alleging that Washington's move to impose high duties on imports of certain Indian steel products are global trade rules.

In December 2014, the WTO dispute panel had ruled against the US imposing high countervailing duties on imports of certain Indian steel products. Later the WTO's appellate body too ruled that the high duties imposed by the US were inconsistent with various provisions of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. Then in June 2017, India again moved the WTO alleging that America has not fully complied with those rulings. India had stated that a reasonable period of time for the US to comply with the WTO's ruling had expired on April 18, 2016.

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