Thorough review of the EU agricultural distorting supports to rebuild fair and sustainable agricultural trade rules after the Doha Round hibernation

29 August, 2006

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Introduction: the Doha Round hibernation invites to clarify the EU agricultural subsidies issue
1. The main flaws of Canada's simulations assumptions and results
2. Complying with the definition of the product-specific de minimis (PSdm)
3. Feed subsidies confer PS AMSs to animal products and skrink the allowed PSdm and blue box
4. The PS AMSs of other processed products
5. The exemption of storage subsidies from the AMS is not justified
6.