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(By Planeta Arroz) The United States, Argentina, Australia, Canada and Ukraine have filed a counter-notification to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over India’s domestic support with input subsidies and market support prices for wheat and rice. This is the latest in a series of counter-notifications from the US showing that India […]

Five WTO members - Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ukraine and the US - have alleged that India provides excessive market support to wheat and rice which distorts global trade. In a communication of the World Trade Organization (WTO), these countries claimed that India's apparent MPS (market price support) for rice appears to have been over 87 per cent of the value of production (VoP) in each of the two covered years (2021-23) for which India has notified data to the multi-lateral body.

Despite India lifting the rice export ban and removing the export duty more than a month ago, prices in the domestic market have refused to come down. Most of Nepal’s city residents eat fine and long-grain rice imported from India and packaged in Nepal, as the country produces little of these expensive varieties.