WASHINGTON — The USA Poultry & Egg Export Council and the National Chicken Council have formally requested that U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack begin consultations with the government of India in the World Trade Organization (WTO) for India’s longstanding prohibition on the import of U.S. poultry.
Despite being one of the 23 founding countries of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which became the WTO, India has done as little as any nation to open its border to trade or to abide by multilateral trade rules, the two groups said. . .

