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(Farm Futures)

U.S. says India breached its WTO agreement; settlement body to hear complaint.

The World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body established a panel June 25 to examine the U.S. complaint against India’s agricultural import measures.

The U.S. and other members voiced concerns about India’s measures prohibiting the importation of various agricultural products into India from members that reported outbreaks of low Pathogenic Notifiable Avian Influenza.

The U.S. claimed the measures were not scientific, inconsistent with the WTO Animal Health guidelines, and did not follow India’s WTO obligations. Read more here.

(Moneycontrol.com)

HTC will be allowed to continue exporting its newest phone to the US in spite of an attempt by Apple to keep some of its handsets out of the country during a long-running patent dispute between the two groups.

The US International Trade Commission will continue to investigate whether some of the Taiwanese group’s phones are violating an Apple-owned patent but the US group’s unsuccessful attempt to immediately halt imports of the phones represents a small victory for HTC, according to analysts. Read more here.