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World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries are required to submit documents
that detail their export subsidy expenditures and the quantities of subsidized
exports—under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, countries agreed to reduce
the use of trade-distorting export subsidies. This database contains statistics
on export subsidy notifications submitted to the WTO. The notifications, submitted
annually, indicate the types of export subsidies, expenditures on export subsidies,
and the quantity of subsidized exports during a given year (notification year).
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 export subsidy policies and the WTO,
see the export subsidy
chapter in the Economic Research Service's WTO briefing room.
The data are presented according to:
— Expenditures on export subsidies—values in local currency of actual
and permitted export subsidies.
— Quantity of subsidized exports—quantities of permitted subsidized
exports and total exports.
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 export
subsidies 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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