{"id":30572,"date":"2018-10-26T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30572"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:18:16","slug":"u-s-challenges-indian-export-programmes-at-wto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-challenges-indian-export-programmes-at-wto\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. challenges Indian export programmes at WTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-challenges-indian-export-programmes-at-wto\/article23263134.ece\"><strong>U.S. challenges Indian export programmes at WTO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indo-US trade disputes<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United States has challenged India\u2019s export subsidy programmes at the World Trade Organisation (WTO)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move comes after a recent string of statements accusing India of \u201cunfair\u201d trade practices, by President Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p><strong>How this dispute is different from earlier ones?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This move\u00a0is broad and sweeping, as it targets whole range of Indian export subsidy programmes unlike earlier ones which used to be product or sector specific<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. and India regularly use the World Trade Organization as a platform to resolve trade disputes. Per the WTO website, there appears to be 16 active cases, with the U.S. being the complainant in 6, and the respondent in 10<\/li>\n<li>However, most of these disputes are for a product or group of products, and less about India\u2019s larger policy programmes. That has changed with the current dispute initiated by the United States, which raises concerns about multiple wider trade programs issued by the Indian government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Which schemes and programmes have been challenged?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US has listed the following schemes as distorting trade in a way that allows Indian exporters to sell their goods more cheaply to the detriment of American workers and manufacturersby creating an uneven playing field on which they must compete<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>M<\/u><\/strong>erchandise\u00a0<strong><u>E<\/u><\/strong>xports\u00a0from <strong><u>I<\/u><\/strong>ndia<strong><u> S<\/u><\/strong>cheme<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>E<\/u><\/strong>xport <strong><u>O<\/u><\/strong>riented <strong><u>U<\/u><\/strong>nits <strong><u>S<\/u><\/strong>cheme<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>E<\/u><\/strong>lectronics <strong><u>H<\/u><\/strong>ardware <strong><u>T<\/u><\/strong>echnology <strong><u>P<\/u><\/strong>arks <strong><u>S<\/u><\/strong>cheme<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>S<\/u><\/strong>pecial <strong><u>E<\/u><\/strong>conomic <strong><u>Z<\/u><\/strong>ones<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>E<\/u><\/strong>xport <strong><u>P<\/u><\/strong>romotion <strong><u>C<\/u><\/strong>apital <strong><u>G<\/u><\/strong>oods <strong><u>S<\/u><\/strong>cheme<\/li>\n<li>a duty free imports for exporters programme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. challenges Indian export programmes at WTO Context Indo-US trade disputes What has happened? United States has challenged India\u2019s export subsidy programmes at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Backdrop The move comes after a recent string of statements accusing India of \u201cunfair\u201d trade practices, by President Donald Trump How this dispute is different from earlier&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-challenges-indian-export-programmes-at-wto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. challenges Indian export programmes at WTO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704715236},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}