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No. 5. Domestic support: trade related issues and the empirical evidence

FAO Trade Policy Technical Notes on issues related to the WTO negotiations on agriculture

Year of publication 2005

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 18 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title Trade policy briefs

Series number No. 5

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This Technical Note seeks to address two central questions relating to negotiations towards further disciplines on domestic support measures: (i) what are the characteristics of domestic support measures that cause such measures to have a potential trade distortionary effect? and (ii) will further the World Trade Organization(WTO) disciplines on domestic support measures be effective in reducing levels of trade-distorting support.

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