US challenges WTO panel’s ruling on solar case in favour of India

A ruling given by the WTO’s dispute settlement panel on renewable energy or the solar sector in favour of India has been challenged by the US in the upper body of the World Trade Organization.

In June, a WTO dispute resolution panel ruled in favour of India in a case against the US saying that America’s domestic content requirements and subsidies provided by eight of its states in the renewable energy or the solar sector are violative of global trade norms.

The US has challenged this ruling in the WTO’s Appellate Body, which is above the dispute settlement panel.

“The US hereby notifies its decision to appeal to the appellate body certain issues of law covered in the report of the panel in US Certain Measures Relating to the Renewable Energy Sector and certain legal interpretations developed by the panel,” a WTO communication has said.