{"id":275453,"date":"2025-12-20T00:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=275453"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:23:23","slug":"china-requests-wto-consultations-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/china-requests-wto-consultations-with-india\/","title":{"rendered":"China requests WTO consultations with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ KJM Varma ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BEIJING, 19 Dec:<\/strong> China on Friday filed a petition with the World Trade Organisation (WTO), requesting consultations with India over New Delhi&#8217;s tariffs on information and communication technology (ICT) products and solar sector subsidies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement issued by the spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce here said India&#8217;s measures allegedly violate multiple WTO obligations, including the principle of national treatment, and constitute import substitution subsidies explicitly prohibited under WTO rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They grant unfair competitive advantages to India&#8217;s domestic industries while undermining China&#8217;s interests,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It urged India to honour its WTO commitments and promptly adjust these measures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the second petition filed by China at the WTO against India this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petition filed against India in October alleged unfair subsidies for electric vehicles and batteries and requested consultations with India at the WTO to discuss India&#8217;s subsidy measures in the electric vehicle and battery sectors, which it alleges undermine its interests. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ KJM Varma ] BEIJING, 19 Dec: China on Friday filed a petition with the World Trade Organisation (WTO), requesting consultations with India over New Delhi&#8217;s tariffs on information and communication technology (ICT) products and solar sector subsidies. A statement issued by the spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce here said India&#8217;s measures allegedly violate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-275453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}