Us Asked WTO To Examine Export Subsidies For India Textile And Garment Enterprises

　　美國的貿易保護主義傾向再次抬頭，美國要求世界貿易組織(WTO)審查印度是否可以對紡織服裝企業提供出口補貼。

However, India has expressed confidence that India's subsidies for textile exporters are mostly short-term subsidies and are not within the challenge of multilateral forums.

The United States recently submitted a document to the WTO Committee on subsidies and countervailing measures (SCM), saying that the United States has reason to believe that certain products in India already have the export competitiveness defined by the SCM agreement.

The agreement stipulates that the members of developing countries (per capita income of less than $000) are not subject to the prohibition of export subsidies, as long as exports of certain products are less than 3.25% of world trade for two consecutive years.

The documents submitted by the United States require the Secretariat (WTO) to calculate the export competitiveness of India's textiles and clothing exports in accordance with Article 27.6 of the SCM agreement.

According to a government official, because most of the subsidies provided by the central government to exporters are short term subsidies, the US threat to India's exports is very small.

Now that things are at an early stage, he said, "we will continue to pay attention to how things develop."