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New disciplines for domestic support

author(s) Glauber, Joseph - Laborde Debucquet, David - Pineiro, Valeria
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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regions
  • South America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
  • World
  • Caribbean
citation

Glauber, Joseph; Laborde Debucquet, David; Pineiro, Valeria, 'New disciplines for domestic support', In The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective, eds. Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos, and Martín Piñeiro. Topics discussed at the WTO agricultural committee going into the MC12, Pp. 29-41, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, 2021

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Abstract

One of the hallmark accomplishments of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was the inclusion of agriculture in a system of multilateral rules and disciplines, including disciplines governing domestic support. Under those provisions, domestic support was capped based on support levels in a historical base period and then reduced over the implementation period of the agreement32. The AoA also encouraged Members to reform agricultural support towards minimally production- and trade-distorting support by exempting those measures from reduction commitments according to criteria laid out in Annex 2 of the AoA (the Green Box).

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