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World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries are required to submit documents
that detail their expenditures on domestic government support to their agriculture
sectors—under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, countries agreed to reduce
domestic policies considered to be trade-distorting. This database contains
statistics on domestic support notifications submitted to the WTO. The notifications,
submitted annually, include the aggregate measurement of support (AMS), an index
of the monetary value of a country's support to its agriculture sector—both
commodity-specific and non-commodity-specific support policies. The domestic
support notifications also include green box and blue box support policies,
which are not subject to reduction commitments. While countries are required
to notify (i.e., submit the documents) each year, there may be a lag between
the end of a specific year and that year's associated notification. For basic
information on domestic support policies and the WTO, see the domestic support chapter in the Economic Research Service's WTO briefing room.
The data are presented according to the standard domestic support tables used by all countries in their notifications. Information may be incomplete in some cases, resulting in blank or zero fields in the database. The database includes only data submitted by specific countries in their notifications for a given year.
Users can access the data in two ways:
— A set of standard tables in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format (*.xls) that are designed for the convenience of most users.
— A searchable database for users familiar with WTO notifications, from which custom tables can be developed.
The data will be updated periodically; the date of the most recent update is noted within the Documentation, Standard, and Custom tabs. Users will need to visit the WTO site to obtain more recent country notifications (See More Info). While countries are supposed to submit notifying documents on domestic support each year, there is a lag between the end of a specific year and that year's associated notification.
For instructions on obtaining notification documents from the WTO website, click the tab labeled More Info.
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