TY  - RPRT
AB  - India has submitted notifications to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on
domestic support to agricultural producers in 1995-2003. This paper reviews India’s notifications
and summarizes the related discussion in the WTO Committee on Agriculture of some key issues
relating to the rules of the Agreement on Agriculture on domestic support. It calculates price
gaps for rice, wheat, cotton and sugarcane in 1995 to 2013 under four scenarios regarding the
external reference price and calculates the resulting market price support using total production
and procurement quantities. It compares the associated Aggregate Measurements of Support
(AMSs) to their limits based on value of production. The AMSs show large excesses above their
limits over many years until 2013 for several crops under some readings of the Agreement but
much less so if certain adjustments are made. This highlights the differences among alternative
interpretations of the Agreement in determining compliance with a country’s obligations, in
particular the understanding of the fixed external reference price and the production eligible to
receive the applied administered price. The paper puts India’s administered pricing in the context
of the 2013 decision of WTO ministers regarding protection under some conditions against
challenge under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism.
AU  - Brink, Lars
DA  - 2014-04-13
DA  - 2014-04-13
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.166343
DO  - doi
ID  - 166343
KW  - Agricultural and Food Policy
KW  - International Relations/Trade
KW  - India
KW  - WTO
KW  - agriculture
KW  - domestic support
KW  - Aggregate Measurement of Support
KW  - market price support
KW  - fixed external reference price
KW  - eligible production
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/166343/files/WP%2014-01%20Brink.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/166343/files/WP%2014-01%20Brink.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/166343/files/WP%2014-01%20Brink.pdf
LA  - eng
LA  - English
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/166343/files/WP%2014-01%20Brink.pdf
N2  - India has submitted notifications to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on
domestic support to agricultural producers in 1995-2003. This paper reviews India’s notifications
and summarizes the related discussion in the WTO Committee on Agriculture of some key issues
relating to the rules of the Agreement on Agriculture on domestic support. It calculates price
gaps for rice, wheat, cotton and sugarcane in 1995 to 2013 under four scenarios regarding the
external reference price and calculates the resulting market price support using total production
and procurement quantities. It compares the associated Aggregate Measurements of Support
(AMSs) to their limits based on value of production. The AMSs show large excesses above their
limits over many years until 2013 for several crops under some readings of the Agreement but
much less so if certain adjustments are made. This highlights the differences among alternative
interpretations of the Agreement in determining compliance with a country’s obligations, in
particular the understanding of the fixed external reference price and the production eligible to
receive the applied administered price. The paper puts India’s administered pricing in the context
of the 2013 decision of WTO ministers regarding protection under some conditions against
challenge under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism.
PY  - 2014-04-13
PY  - 2014-04-13
T1  - Support to Agriculture in India in 1995-2013 and the Rules of the WTO
TI  - Support to Agriculture in India in 1995-2013 and the Rules of the WTO
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/166343/files/WP%2014-01%20Brink.pdf
Y1  - 2014-04-13
T2  - IATRC Working Paper
T2  - 14-01
ER  -