Agriculture Agri cultural Subsidies

Agriculture and agricultural subsidises

(a) Agriculture and agricultural subsidies

Agricultural export subsidies

Agricultural producer subsidies, 1984 88

Each Party shall publish or otherwise make available information on fees and charges imposed by a customs administration of that Party, including through electronic means.

Table 3 Agricultural producer subsidies, 1984 88

We would be prepared to see downwards adjustment of support in some sectors.

Subject EU export subsidies for agricultural produce

Agricultural subsidies make up a huge proportion of the European budget.

But your agricultural subsidy programs block us from establishing any sort of comparative advantage in most agricultural products.

Subsidies on agricultural products can be paid either to agricultural producers or to other economic operators.

Will you press for Europe and America to eliminate their agricultural subsidies?

It is only in that way that we will get the results of bet ter employment figures in the future. That is the way we have to continue to go.

First, we have to accept the total abolition in the long term of agricultural export subsidies.

Farm subsidies cost those poor countries about USD 50 billion a year in lost agricultural exports.

With respect to world trade, agricultural subsidies are also important.

Because of agricultural subsidy policies, however, cotton prices had been plummeting.

Madam President, I declare an interest as a farmer receiving agricultural subsidies.

Subsidies on agricultural products paid to economic operators other than agricultural producers are not entered in the EAA.

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This is why I have tabled an amendment which should prevent this improper use of rural subsidies in future.

Other outstanding problems in the agricultural sector include the Community directive on hormones ban on hormones for fattening cattle and ban on the use of bovine somatotropin (BST) which the US regards as a trade barrier.

The Land agriculture trust agency (LTS Agrar) administers public loans and grants to promote agriculture, in particular agricultural investment and forestry measures.

For example, rich countries should reduce agricultural subsidies and open up their markets more to Third World food exports.

Finally, I should like to point out that with regard to agricultural subsidies, export subsidies for live animals too are a disgrace and unacceptable to our public opinion.

And in the European Union, the site Farmsubsidy.org intends to shine a light on the 55 billion euros spent on farm subsidies.

In particular, the effect of external protectionism (i.e., EU agricultural subsidies) will depend on whether African nations are importers or exporters.

The United States would remove all agricultural subsidies as soon as other countries were willing to do the same.

8.4 The EESC considers that the reduction of subsidies (including subsidies for farming) linked to export prices would greatly help to reduce poverty.

Consider agricultural subsidies, bans on genetically modified organisms, or lax financial regulation.

Agricultural exporters have proposed a front loading approach whereby cuts would be more drastic in the first years.

Agricultural subsidies have an enormous, crushing effect on developing country producers and markets.

(9) By virtue of the Agreement, the granting of export subsidies is limited to certain groups of agricultural products defined therein.

Improved mutual market access through free trade internally including liberalization of public contracts and the elimination of State trading monopolies combined with basically uniform and relatively liberal import conditions in trade with third countries.

The provisions contained in the new protocol, which are in line with the negotiating brief from the Council, will not interfere with the Community's conclusion and operation of its bilateral agreements.

The purpose of advertising, let us not forget, is to persuade people to buy a product.

These subsidies seriously damage the prospects of other countries, particularly developing ones, of maintaining a viable position on the market in agricultural produce.

In a way, the agricultural subsidies are, in fact, the EU's best kept secret.

Thus the US surplus rose from ECU 5.6 billion in 1989 to 20 billion in 1991.

If the surpluses are sold cheaply enough, there is no problem, it would be possible to sell them on the world market with the help of agricultural sub sidies.

At first, there was reason for hope Wolfowitz was forceful in arguing for debt forgiveness and an end to agricultural subsidies.

It calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agricultural subsidies that hurt farmers and small businesses.

The treatment of subsidies in the accounts for the agricultural households sector, leading to disposable income, is potentially broader.

Because these three strands of I A specifically prepare for management of the EU s structural funds and agricultural support,