Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 5/23/17



The World Trade Organization has agreed to establish a panel that will determine whether India complied with the body’s earlier ruling ordering New Delhi to revise restrictions it placed on U.S. poultry over avian influenza concerns, according to media reports.

The move was expected as a matter of procedure in that India’s second request for a compliance panel on the matter could not be blocked, as was its first one last month by the United States.

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.

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

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