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Also in this section:
- Preamble
- Article 1
- Article 2 and Annex 1
- Article 3
- Article 4
- Article 5
- Article 6
- Article 7
- Article 8
- Article 9
- Article 10
- Article 11
- Article 12
- Article 13
- Article 14
- Article 15
- Article 16
- Article 17
- Article 18
- Article 19
- Article 20
- Article 21
- Annex 1
- Annex 2
- Annex 3
- Annex 4
- Annex 5
- Relationship with other °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ Agreements
- Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least-Developed and Net Food-Importing Developing Countries (The “NFIDC Decision”)
Table of contents
A. Text of the Preamble
B. Interpretation and Application of the Preamble
A. Text of Article 1
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 1
(a) AMS
(b) “s³Ü±è±è´Ç°ù³Ù”
(c) Article 1(c)
2. Article 1(e)
(b) “contingent upon export performance”
3. Article 1(h)
III. Article 2 and Annex 1
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A. Text of Article 2
B. Text of Annex 1
C. Interpretation and Application of Article 2 and Annex 1
A. Text of Article 3
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 3
1. Article 3.1
2. Article 3.2
3. Article 3.3
A. Text of Article 4
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 4
1. General
2. Article 4.1
3. Article 4.2
(a) “any measures which have been required to be converted into ordinary customs duties”
(i) Interpretation
(ii) “c´Ç²Ô±¹±ð°ù³Ù±ð»å”
(iii) “ordinary customs duties”
(b) Relation with Article XI of GATT and its Ad Note
(a) “quantitative import restrictions”
(d) “discretionary import licensing”
(ii) Relevance of tariff caps in the similarity analysis
(iii) Common features of border measures
(f) “other than ordinary customs duties”
5. Relationship with other °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ Agreements
(a) GATT 1994
A. Text of Article 5
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 5
2. Article 5.5
3. Article 5.7
4. Relation of Article 5 with other articles
A. Text of Article 6
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 6
2. Article 6.2
3. Article 6.3
A. Text of Article 7
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 7
1. Paragraph 2
A. Text of Article 8
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 8
1. Waivers from export subsidy commitments
A. Text of Article 9
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 9
1. General
(a) “direct subsidies, including payments-in-kind”
(b) “governments or their agencies”
(c) “contingent on export performance”
(i) A payment includes a payment-in-kind
(ii) Cross-subsidization as a payment
(iii) Benchmark to be applied when assessing payments
(b) “financed by virtue of governmental action”
(i) Meaning of governmental action
(iii) Link between governmental action and the financing of payments
5. Article 9.2
A. Text of Article 10
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 10
1. Article 10.1
(a) Export subsidy commitments
(b) “export subsidies not listed in paragraph 1 of Article 9”
(c) “applied in a manner which results in, or which threatens to lead to circumvention”
(ii) Relevance of a measure’s structure and characteristics in respect of “threat of circumvention”
(iii) Difference in nature of “circumvention” in respect of scheduled and unscheduled products
2. Article 10.2
(b) Application of Article 10.1 to export credit guarantees, export credits or insurance programmes
3. Article 10.3
(a) Partial reversal of burden of proof
(b) Limitation in scope to scheduled products
4. Article 10.4: International food aid
(a) Relationship between Articles 10.4 and 10.1
A. Text of Article 11
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 11
A. Text of Article 12
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 12
A. Text of Article 13
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 13
1. General
(a) Subparagraph (i)
(ii) “injury or threat thereof”
(iii) “due restraint”
(iv) Scope
(ii) “g°ù²¹²Ô³Ù”
(iii) “provided that such measures do not grant support to a specific commodity”
(iv) “that decided during the 1992 marketing year”
(c) Relationship with Annex 3 to the Agreement on Agriculture
A. Text of Article 14
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 14
A. Text of Article 15
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 15
A. Text of Article 16
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 16
1. Article 16.1
(b) Recommendations of the Singapore Ministerial Conference
(c) Recommendations approved at the Doha Ministerial Conference
(d) List of least-developed and net food-importing developing countries
2. Article 16.2
(a) General
(c) Opportunities for consultation
(d) Effectiveness
A. Text of Article 17
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 17
(c) Activities
A. Text of Article 18
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 18
1. Article 18.2
(i) General
(b) Notification and transparency
(i) General
(ii) Information systems on agriculture notifications
(iii) Developing countries
2. Article 18.5
(a) Annual consultations: Members’ participation in the normal growth of world agricultural trade
3. Article 18.6
(a) Article 18.7: counter notifications
A. Text of Article 19
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 19
1. Articles of the Agreement on Agriculture invoked in panel and Appellate Body proceedings
A. Text of Article 20
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 20
1. Decision of the Singapore Ministerial Conference
2. Decision to launch negotiations on agriculture
3. “What further commitments are necessary …”
A. Text of Article 21
B. Interpretation and Application of Article 21
1. Relationship between the Agreement and Schedule concessions and commitments
2. Relationship between the Agreement and the SCM Agreement
A. Text of Annex 2
B. Interpretation and Application of Annex 2
(a) Subparagraph (b)
(b) Subparagraph (e)
(c) Relationship with other Articles
A. Text of Annex 3
B. Interpretation and Application of Annex 3
1. General
2. Paragraph 7
3. Paragraph 8
A. Text of Annex 4
B. Interpretation and Application of Annex 4
A. Text of Annex 5
B. Interpretation and Application of Annex 5
1. Exemptions from Article 4.2 by virtue of Annex 5
2. Price gap methodology for calculating tariff equivalents provided for in the Attachment to Annex 5
XXVIII. Relationship with other °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ Agreements
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XXIX. Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible Negative Effects
of the Reform Programme on Least-Developed and Net Food-Importing
Developing Countries (The “NFIDC Decision”)
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A. Text of the Decision
B. Interpretation and Application of the Decision
1. General
2. Paragraph 3
(i) Extension of the Food Aid Convention
(b) Paragraph 3(iii)
3. Paragraph 4
4. Paragraph 5