New Delhi: A day after the European Union (EU) won a case against India on bed linen at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), New Delhi on November 30 accused Brussels of "targeting and singling out" Indian exports.

"There is a feeling in India that the EU is targeting India out of proportion in terms of the number of cases pitted against it. We fail to understand why we are being singled out," Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Shourie said.

Reacting to the ruling, Shourie told reporters, "in the trade negotiations, losing and winning is part of the game and changes every day".

Though he was yet to study the ruling, Shouire told reporters that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had taken up the bed linen issue during the recently held India- EU summit at Copenhagen.

A WTO panel had on November 29 ruled that the EU had fully complied with the recommendations of a WTO Dispute Settlement Body in March 2001 concerning EU's anti- dumping measures on imports of cotton bed linen.

The implementation panel rejected all claims made by India against the EU's implementation measures.

PTI