book chapter
New disciplines for domestic support
The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective | 2021 | Pages: 13
Publisher(s): Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)international food policy research institute (ifpri)
Open Access | CC BY-SA-3.0-IGO
Citation
Glauber, Joseph W.; Laborde Debucquet, David; and Piñeiro, Valeria. 2021. New disciplines for domestic support. In The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective, eds. Valeria Piñeiro, Adriana Campos, and Martín Piñeiro. Topics discussed at the WTO agricultural committee going into the MC12, Pp. 29-41. San Jose, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134826
One of the hallmark accomplishments of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was the inclusion of agriculture in a system of multilateral rules and disciplines, including disciplines governing domestic support. Under those provisions, domestic support was capped based on support levels in a historical base period and then reduced over the implementation period of the agreement32. The AoA also encouraged Members to reform agricultural support towards minimally production- and trade-distorting support by exempting those measures from reduction commitments according to criteria laid out in Annex 2 of the AoA (the Green Box).