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Subsidies and countervailing measures
The WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures disciplines the use of subsidies, and it regulates the actions WTO members can take to counter the effects of subsidies. Under the agreement, a WTO member can use the WTO’s dispute-settlement procedure to seek the withdrawal of the subsidy or the removal of its adverse effects. Or the WTO member can launch its own investigation and ultimately charge extra duty (“countervailing duty”) on subsidized imports that are found to be hurting domestic producers.
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Introduction
Introduction
to subsidies and countervailing measures in the WTO
Links to subsidies and countervailing measures section of the WTO
guide “Understanding the WTO”.
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The mandate
Explanation
of the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Agreement
Browse or
download the text of the “Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Agreement” from the legal
texts gateway
Find decisions of WTO bodies concerning the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement in the Analytical Index — Guide to WTO Law and Practice
The
Doha negotiating mandate
Section on Subsidies and countervailing measures in the Doha Ministerial Declaration
The Doha
Implementation Decision, 2001
Ministers’ decisions on developing WTO members’ difficulties
implementing the current WTO Subsidies and countervailing measures
Agreement.
NOTIFICATION OBLIGATIONS
Committee on subsidies and countervailing measures
The Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures oversees the implementation of the Agreement on SCM and provides a forum for members to raise and address related questions and concerns. The current chair is .
Full details
Statistics on countervailing actions
The data presented in the tables below are taken from the semi-annual reports of WTO members to the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (in English only) and cover the period 1 January 1995 - 30 June 2024. The tables are based on information from members having submitted semi-annual reports for the relevant periods, and are incomplete to the extent members have not submitted reports, or have submitted incomplete reports. For the purpose of these tables, each initiation and measure reported covers one product imported from one WTO member. “WTO member” in each case refers to WTO member or customs territory (referred to in the tables as "Exporter"). The tables are updated with information from the latest notification cycle every six months.
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exporter
> MS Excel (21KB) > pdf (13KB) - Countervailing
initiations: by sector
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exporter
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exporter
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measures: by sector
> MS Excel (16KB) > pdf (11KB) - Countervailing sectoral: distribution
of initiations by exporter
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of initiations by reporting member
> MS Excel (17KB) > pdf (12KB) - Countervailing sectoral: distribution
of measures by exporter
> MS Excel (19KB) > pdf (14KB) - Countervailing sectoral: distribution
of measures by reporting member
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