More than a dozen senators sent a letter to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai regarding India. They’d like the administration to pursue a World Trade Organization case against India’s domestic support for rice and wheat production. The U.S. has previously highlighted India’s non-compliance through counter-notifications at the WTO Committee on Agriculture. “American rice and wheat producers are operating at a clear disadvantage compared to their competitors, primarily from India, where the government is subsidizing more than half the value of production for rice and wheat,” says the letter to the administration. WTO regulations only allow just ten percent. “Wheat and rice farmers rely on open markets and fair trade to facilitate trade, which plays a vital role in supporting our growers and jobs in rural America,” says North American Wheat Growers Association CEO Chandler Goule. “It’s important that India lives by their international WTO commitments.”
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