new delhi, Oct. 3 -- Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Friday called for measures to address global trade distortions to remain consistent with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, warning against using supply-chain diversification as a pretext for measures that fall outside the multilateral trade framework. Speaking at the concluding day of the G20 Trade Ministers' Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Goyal said India does not have structural excess capacity in the sectors identified by the G20 presidency, and that its manufacturing capacity serves both domestic and global demand, according to a commerce ministry statement. "Trade-distorting support in some economies can lead to dumping and predatory pricing," the statement quoted Goyal as saying. He said such concerns can be addressed through WTO-consistent instruments, including anti-dumping and countervailing duties, based on evidence and subject to judicial review. Goyal said industrial capacity itself was not the issue, but distortions could arise when geographical concentration of production is driven by hidden subsidies and other forms of support. "Diversification of production and supply chains is a legitimate objective, but cannot be used as a pretext for measures outside WTO rules or for shifting the burden of adjustment onto developing countries," he said, stressing the need to preserve policy space for developing economies to industrialize. On the WTO's Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) principle, Goyal said India's trade with G20 members depends on a transparent, non-discriminatory and rules-based trading system. He described MFN treatment as a key guarantee of the system and said consensus-based decision-making must remain central to the WTO....