Thailand to challenge India sugar export sops at WTO.

After Brazil and Australia, now Thailand, too, is teaming up with the Global Sugar Alliance for Sugar Trade Reform and Liberalization to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization over India’s recently announced subsidies to facilitate export of up to 5 mln tn of the sweetener. The Union Cabinet had approved a subsidy of 138.8 rupees per tn of cane crushed in 2018-19 and a transport subsidy of 1,000-3,000 rupees per tn for sugar exported during 2018-19. Thai sugar millers…are joining hands with the global sugar body, headed by leading sugar producers Brazil, Australia, Guatemala, Colombia, Chile, Canada and Thailand to call for the WTO as arbitrator to act on their complaints.