Domestic Support Clause Samples

Domestic Support. 1. The Parties recognize that domestic support measures can be of crucial importance to their agricultural sectors but may also have trade distorting effects and effects on production. If a Party supports its agricultural producers, the Party shall consider domestic support measures that have no, or at most minimal, trade distorting effects or effects on production. 2. Ifa Party raises concerns that another Party's domestic support measure has had a negative impact on trade between the Parties, the Parties shall share relevant information regarding the domestic support measure with each other and discuss the matter with a view to seeking to minimize any negative trade impact.

Domestic Support. 1. The Parties recognize that domestic support measures may be important to their agricultural sectors, but they may also distort trade and affect production. In this sense, the Parties shall apply domestic support in accordance with the Agreement on Agriculture of the WTO, or its successors, and when a Party decides to support its agriculture producers it shall ensure, in accordance with the relevant legal instruments, that the benefits arising from those programs do not distort domestic trade of the other Party, nor diminish the opportunity of the goods of the other Party to access the market of the Party. 2. In order to ensure transparency, the Parties agree that the Committee on Trade in Goods established pursuant to Article 3.15 shall carry out ongoing and permanent analysis of the status of all domestic support measures, seeking to evaluate the accomplishment of the provisions under paragraph 1. Also, the Parties shall exchange information in a timely manner or, at the request of a Party may engage in consultations over this issue at any time.

Domestic Support. 1. The Parties recognize that domestic support measures may be of crucial importance to their agricultural sectors, but may also affect distort trade and production. they recognise that may arise commitments on reduction of domestic agricultural support for multilateral negotiations within the framework of the WTO. thus if a Party decides to support its agricultural producers, shall endeavour to move towards domestic support policy that: a) Have minimal or no trade distorting effects on trade or production; or b) Are exempt from any domestic support reduction commitments that may be negotiated under the WTO. 2. The Parties also recognise that either party may modify its domestic support measures, including those that may be subject to reduction commitments, in accordance with its rights and obligations under the WTO Agreement.

Domestic Support. The Parties recognize that domestic support measures can be of crucial importance to their agricultural sectors but may also have trade distorting and production effects and that domestic support reduction commitments may result from agricultural multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Accordingly, where a Party supports its agricultural producers, that Party should endeavor to work toward domestic support measures that:

Domestic Support. CALCULATION OF EQUIVALENT MEASUREMENT OF SUPPORT

Domestic Support. 1. China shall respect its WTO obligations to publish in an official journal its laws, regulations, and other measures pertaining to its domestic support programs and policies. 2. For greater certainty, nothing in this Agreement limits the rights of the United States under the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding against China with respect to China’s domestic support measures.

Domestic Support. The Parties recognize that domestic support measures can be of crucial importance to their agricultural sectors but may also have trade distorting and production effects and that domestic support reduction commitments may result from agricultural multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Accordingly, where a Party supports its agricultural producers, that Party should endeavor to work toward domestic support measures that: (a) have minimal or no trade distorting or production effects; or (b) are exempt from any applicable domestic support reduction commitments that may be negotiated under the GATT. The Parties further recognize that a Party may change its domestic support measures, including those that may be subject to reduction commitments, at the Party's discretion, subject to its rights and obligations under the GATT.

Domestic Support. 21. August 2004 Framework agreed that all developed countries would make substantial reductions in distorting supports, and those with higher levels are to make deeper cuts from “bound” rates (the actual levels of support could be lower than the bound levels). The way to achieve this would include reductions both in overall current ceilings4 (“bound levels”), and in two components- Amber Box5 and de minimis 6supports. The third component, Blue Box supports,7 would be capped; at the moment the 4 For the overall level of support (Amber Box, de minimis and Blue Box combined), a “tiered formula.” would be used. This will be designed so that higher levels of support (those in higher “tiers”) will have steeper cuts. On top of that, in the first year, each country’s ceiling of permitted overall support will be cut by 20%. Details include how to measure the Blue Box component for the overall cut (“the higher of existing Blue Box payments during a recent representative period to be agreed and the cap established in paragraph 15”, which will be 5% of a country’s agricultural production during a yet-to- be-specified period). 5 Amber Box (“final bound total AMS”) supports will also be cut using a tiered formula, so that higher supports have steeper cuts. There will be limits on supports for specific products-“product-specific AMSs will be capped”- in order to avoid shifting support between different products. Since the tiered formula applies to the total of support on all products, the text also says that the result will be cuts in support specified for some products.

Domestic Support. 1. DIRECT DOMESTIC SUPPORT The following measures of support are inconsistent when provided directly to the shipbuilder or ship repairer: a. grants; ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ on terms and conditions more favourable than those of a comparable commercial loan which a firm can actually obtain on the market; ▇. ▇▇▇▇ guarantees that support loans on terms and conditions more favourable than those that the firm would obtain on a comparable commercial loan absent the government guarantee, or on terms and conditions more favourable than those otherwise permitted by this Agreement; d. forgiveness of debts; e. provision of equity capital inconsistent with the usual investment practice (including for the provision of risk capital) of private investors in the territory of that Party; f. provision of goods and services at less than the adequate remuneration; ▇. ▇▇▇ policies and practices benefiting the shipbuilding and repair industry, such as tax credits; h.other assistance except for: (i) assistance to cover the cost of measures for the exclusive benefit of workers who lose retirement benefits or who are made redundant or otherwise separated permanently from employment in the respective shipbuilding enterprise, when such assistance is related to the discontinuance or curtailment of shipyards, bankruptcy, or change of activities away from shipbuilding and (ii) research and development assistance granted in accordance with the provisions in Section B.3. 2. INDIRECT DOMESTIC SUPPORT7 (1) The following measures of support are inconsistent where the benefit is passed or may reasonably be expected to be passed to the shipbuilder or ship repairer indirectly, through a shipowner or other third parties.8 Domestic build requirements, in law or in fact, are inconsistent. a. grants; ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇ and loan guarantees: 6 See Accompanying Note 2 to this Annex. 7 See Accompanying Note 3 to this Annex. i) home credits, linked to the contract value of a new vessel, granted to a domestic shipowner or other domestic third parties placing orders for such vessel on terms and conditions more favourable than those of a comparable commercial loan which a firm can actually obtain on the market, subject to paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 below; ii) other loans, on terms and conditions more favourable than those of a comparable commercial loan which a firm can actually obtain on the market; iii) loan guarantees that support loans on terms and conditions more favourable than those that the firm would obtain on a comparab...