Feed subsidies to EU and US exported poultry and pig meats (updated)

Outline

The paramount importance of feed in the EU and US agricultural economies

EU and US feed subsidies are coupled input subsidies

The CAP has always linked the common market organisations (CMOs) for poultry and pork to the cereal CMO

The sharp reduction in EU's export subsidies has been largely replaced by increased domestic subsidies benefiting to exported cereals and poultry and pork meats

The significant amount of US feed subsidies to exported meats

Taking into account feed subsidies gives product-specific AMSs to animal products and reduces the allowed product-specific de minimis

The OECD's tortuous justification to ignore feed subsidies

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