New Delhi, July 17 -- New Delhi: India has come under America's scanner at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over alleged export-linked subsidies, joining a list of countries facing similar probes that had until recently focused on China.

According to a WTO document reviewed by Mint, the US has named four Indian product categories-lined paper products, oil country tubular goods, high chrome cast iron grinding media and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid-in its latest countervailing duty probes.

Incentives or subsidies aimed at promoting exports are prohibited under WTO rules.

One of the Indian products targeted by the US is lined paper of the kind used in school notebooks. India is the world's second-largest exporter of this key product a...