Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 4/21/17


The United States has blocked India’s request for the World Trade Organization to form a panel that would determine whether it has complied with WTO demands for revisions to India’s poultry import guidelines, according to a media report from New Delhi.
The expected U.S. action is the latest in a long-running dispute over India’s regulations over imports of U.S. poultry. India is expected to make a second request for a compliance panel, which cannot be blocked.

Washington wants the WTO to follow through with a $450 million fine to India for failing to update its poultry import protocol following the WTO’s ruling in 2015 in favor of the U.S. on India’s ban on U.S. poultry.

India placed a ban on U.S. poultry in 2007 to prevent low-pathogenic avian influenza.
India now contends that it has adequately updated its bird flu rules to comply with the WTO’s ruling.

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