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INDIA: CLAIMS OF VICTORY IN WTO DISPUTE QUESTIONABLE.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, May, 2004

According to "Business Line", the ruling in a recent WTO dispute, a case that the Government of India claims it won, actually lays the ground for trade discrimination between developing countries. The right of developing countries to access developed country markets on a non-discriminatory tariff basis and compete with other exporters to those markets has received a serious setback, with the recent ruling of the WTO's Appellate Body (AB) in the dispute raised by India against the European Community over its Generalized Scheme of Preferences (GSP), and within it the Drug benefits scheme extended to some 12 countries, including Pakistan.

In a technical sense, India won the case (as the Commerce Ministry claimed on April 7) the particular scheme of the EC was struck...

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