CERTAIN MEASURES OF INDIA PROVIDING MARKET PRICE SUPPORT
TO RICE AND WHEAT

COMMUNICATION FROM ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UKRAINE, AND THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 18.7 OF THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE

The following communication, dated 7 November 2024, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of the United States.

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1  INDIA'S PROVISION OF SUBSTANTIAL MARKET PRICE SUPPORT FOR RICE AND WHEAT

1.1.  Using publicly-available sources, the cosponsors (i.e., Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ukraine, and the United States) have compiled data and information on India's market price support (MPS) for rice and wheat. Further to Article 18.7 of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), the cosponsors are providing this information to other Members in the interest of promoting transparency surrounding India's MPS policies. This document is for the purpose of discussion by World Trade Organization (WTO) Members. Some aspects were necessarily based on partial information.

1.2.  This document addresses marketing years (MY) 2021/22 through 2022/23[1] - the marketing years covered by India's domestic support notifications _G/AG/N/IND/29 and _G/AG/N/IND/31. Findings and calculations are presented in Part I of the present document. Explanation of the relevant methodology and findings, as well as preliminary discussion of their significance, can be found in Part II.

1.3.  This document is limited to the specific issues of India's MPS for rice and wheat. The document does not attempt to identify the full value of India's Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS) or even the full amount of product-specific domestic support provided for rice and wheat. The limited scope of this document should in no way be taken to suggest that no additional product‑specific support was provided for rice and wheat in the relevant years, that MPS or other types of product-specific domestic support was not provided for other commodities, or that India did not provide non-de-minimis non-product specific domestic support in the years in question.