1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated April 17, 2015WTO Disciplines of Domestic Support for AgricultureTrade is critical to the U.S. agricultural sectorexports account for about 20% of total U.S. agricultural production. Some commodities, such as cotton, wheat, and soybeans, have export shares of
2、nearly 50% or greater. As a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States has committed to abide by WTO rules and disciplines, including those that govern domestic farm policy. WTO Disciplines of Domestic Support A farm support program can violate WTO commitments in two principal w
3、aysfirst, by exceeding spending limits of certain market-distorting programs, and second, by generating distortions that spill over into the international marketplace and cause significant adverse effects. The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) The WTOs AoA spells out the rules for countries to determin
4、e whether their policies for any given year are potentially trade-distorting, how to calculate the costs of any distortion, and how to report those costs to the WTO in a public and transparent manner. WTO Classification of Domestic Support Programs The WTO uses a traffic light analogy to group progr
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