MUMBAI: India has challenged a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling asking it to lift ban on the import of cheap chicken legs from the United States.
This objection of India aimed at helping check shipment of low-cost chicken legs, which are discarded in America as they are perceived as having higher cholesterol levels.
Although a decision on filing an appeal had been taken by the commerce department earlier, the actual plea was delayed due to legal vetting and news about it trickled out only after US president Barack Obama left for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
India had banned poultry imports several years ago, citing avian influenza, but the WTO accepted the US challenge and termed the restrictions imposed as “unscientific”. India is not the only country to have imposed such checks. Even China had levied duties, and was asked to remove them by WTO as they were seen to be unfair.
