Subsidies

Request From The United States To China Pursuant To Article 25.10 Of The Agreement On Subsidies And Countervailing Duties

Previously Posted:
U.S. Steps Up Pressure On China Over Missing WTO Subsidy Notifications By Detailing Specific Programs


Doha Talks Stalled Despite Shift To Market Access To Sidestep Subsidies Fight

Despite a renewed commitment by trade ministers this week to push ahead, negotiations in Geneva to advance the Doha round ahead of a July 31 deadline remain at a standstill as key World Trade Organization members have been unable to agree on the tariff cutting methodology for agricultural products, according to informed sources. The differences on agricultural market access have played out in small group meetings involving the United States, China, European Union, India, Brazil, Australia and Japan. The meetings...

U.S. Conditions Cuts Of Its Subsidy Programs To Agricultural Tariff Cuts

The United States is demanding ambitious cuts on agricultural tariffs and reciprocal cuts to the domestic subsidy programs of major economies as a condition for reducing its own domestic agriculture subsidies programs in the negotiations to conclude the Doha round at the World Trade Organization. The explicit link to an ambitious market access outcome does not negate the U.S. demand that major economies that have enough agricultural production capacity to distort the global market also reduce their subsidies, according to...

House Ag Committee Leaders Urge Challenge Of Chinese Farm Subsidies

House Agriculture Committee leaders have fired a shot across the bow of developing economies -- and particularly China – by calling on the U.S. government to challenge their farm subsidies at the World Trade Organization because they distort world prices. At a June 3 hearing on foreign agricultural subsidies, they also urged the U.S. to refuse giving these countries new flexibility under the agriculture rules WTO members hope to negotiate as part of the Doha round. In his opening statement,...

Draft Federal Register Notice

Previously Posted:
Commerce Initiates AD, CVD Investigations Into Imports Of Resin From China, 3 Others


Office Of The U.S. Trade Representative Press Release

Remarks By U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman


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Editor's Note: The discussions on state-owned enterprises from last week's Trade Policy Review of China can be found in the package posted below in the 'Previously Posted' section. It can be found on page 102 of the Report by the Secretariat and Page 12 of China's Report.

Statement Of Discussant Joakim Reiter


Correction: A previous version of this headline incorrectly referenced the country that China was investigating. The headline has been corrected to reflect the fact that it is the European Union.

Chinese Ministry Of Commerce Press Release On Subsidies

MOFCOM Release On Dumping


International Trade Administration Fact Sheet

Federal Register Notice For Antidumping Investigation

Federal Register Notice For Countervailing Duty Investigation


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