New Delhi: India on Friday threatened to take European Union (EU) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), if it did not lift its ban on the import of Indian mangoes and vegetables.
“We do hope that the EU will see sense, considering the strength of the economic partnership between India and EU, and not precipitate the situation any further, which leads us to go to the WTO,” said commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma.
He termed EU’s move to ban Indian mangoes as an “arbitrary action without any consultation.”
He said that the government has invested in creating world-class laboratories through the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority and their certification processes are acceptable to the EU, the US and other countries.
