Benefits Of International Agreement On Trade-distorting Subsidies Not Yet Realized V. NSIAD-83-10

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NSIAD-83-10 1 (1983-08-15)

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BY THE US. GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

Report To The Secretary Of Commerce

And The United States Trade Representative

Benefits Of International Agreement On

Trade-Distorting Subsidies Not Yet Realized

GAO reviewed three strategies used by the
U.S. Government between January 1980-
83 to reduce the use of trade-related sub-
sidies under the 1979 international agree-
ment on subsidies.
1, Persuading developing countries to
assume increased discipline over the
use of subsidies.
2. Persuading Agreement signatories to
report the subsidies they use.
3. Using the Agreement's dispute settle-
ment procedure to help eliminate the
effects of subsidies.

GAO concluded that to date these strategies
have met with little success.

Under U.S. law, the private sector initiates
most disputes involving foreign subsidies,
so GAO also reviewed how the Government
shared information on foreign subsidy prac-
tices with the private sector and recom-
mended ways to improve this information
sharing.

GAO/NSIAD-83-10
0C OU,. AUGUST 15, 1983

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