WTO panel tells India to comply with trade rules on sugar

India, the world's second-largest sugar producer, after Brazil, said later on Tuesday that it would appeal the findings of the panel's 115-page report (File pic shows wholesale of sugar in Kolkata, India. - Reuters)

GENEVA: A World Trade Organization panel ruled in favour of Brazil, Australia and Guatemala on Tuesday in their trade disputes with India over sugar subsidies and asked New Delhi to conform with global rules.

In the cases brought before the WTO in 2019, the rival producers alleged that India had broken WTO rules by providing excessive domestic support and export subsidies for sugar and sugarcane.