Overview
- WTO members were notified on Oct. 20 after China sought consultations with India on Oct. 15.
- The challenge targets India’s PLI for automobiles and components, the ACC battery storage programme, and the 2024 scheme to promote manufacturing of electric passenger cars.
- China claims domestic value‑addition and local input conditions make the incentives import‑substituting and discriminatory, breaching the SCM Agreement, TRIMs and GATT 1994.
- India’s commerce ministry says it will review China’s detailed submission, with Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal indicating the government will examine the case ahead of talks.
- If consultations do not resolve the dispute within 60 days, China can request a panel, though the WTO appellate body’s dysfunction clouds the path to a final ruling.