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The United States, Argentina, Australia, Canada and Ukraine submitted a counter-notification to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on India’s domestic support, input subsidies and market support prices for wheat and rice. This is the latest in a series of US counter-notifications showing India is not transparent about the true level of wheat and rice support

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.

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – This week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) filed its third “counter notification” on India's rice and wheat subsidies to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Committee on Agriculture.  The counter notification details flaws in India’s notification methodology, which continues to obscure the real level of provided subsidies. The submission was co-sponsored by Argentina, Australia, Canada, and Ukraine, demonstrating the global impact of India’s trade-distorting subsidies. The measure estimates that if India correctly calculated the level of support they provide to their rice farmers through domestic subsidies, the levels would be at 87.6 and 87.9 percent of the market value in 2021/22 and 2022/23, respectively. This is compared to the ten percent limit India agreed to when it joined the WTO. USA Rice has long called on the Biden Administration, and preceding administrations, to file a dispute settlement case against India’s domestic support for