Negotiating Group on Rules - Subsidies Disciplines Requiring Clarification and Improvement - Communication from the United States
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World Trade
Organization TN/RL/W/78
19 March 2003 (03-1611) Negotiating Group on Rules Original: English
Subsidies Disciplines Requiring
Clarification and Improvement
Communication from the United States
The following communication, dated 19 March 2003, has been received from the Permanent Mission of the United States.
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Introduction & Background
At the Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Ministers agreed to negotiations aimed at clarifying and improving disciplines under the subsidies and antidumping agreements, while preserving the agreements’ basic concepts, principles and effectiveness, and taking into account the needs of developing and least developed countries. In this initial phase of the negotiations, participants are to indicate the provisions, including disciplines on trade distorting practices, that they seek to clarify and improve in the subsequent phase. Identification of enhanced disciplines on trade distort