Overview
At the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade
negotiations in 1995, members of the World Trade Organization
(WTO) established a broad set of rules and disciplines in
the Agreement on Agriculture, governing three key areas
affecting agricultural trade policy: domestic support, export
subsidies, and market access. This database contains data
on implementation of commitments in agricultural policy
by WTO members.
Export subsidy data indicate the type of export subsidies,
expenditures on export subsidies, and the quantity of subsidized
exports during a given year by WTO members. Domestic support
data detail the type and amount of support WTO members have
provided annually. Market access data contain information
on tariff commitments and their implementation by presenting
bound tariff levels and tariff-rate quotas agreed to in
the Uruguay Round, as well as applied annual tariff rates
(i.e., the tariff rates published by national customs authorities
for duty administration purposes).
Feature
WTO Briefing Room—Contains
analysis of international agricultural trade and policy
issues.
Searchable Databases and Downloadable Excel Files
The data are organized into three sections; one each for
domestic support, export subsidy, and market access data.
- WTO Export Subsidy Notifications—Data are broken down into expenditures
on export subsidies and quantity of subsidized exports.
- WTO Domestic Support Notifications—Data
include the aggregate measurement of support and may be
commodity-specific, non-commodity-specific, green box, or
blue box.
- WTO Tariff Levels—WTO
bound and annual applied data are presented in a set of
commodity aggregates. These aggregates allow comparison
across countries of average levels of tariff protection.
The data on tariff-rate quotas are presented at the level
of aggregation specified by WTO members in their market
access schedules.
Each of the three databases contains a common set of information
about the respective data series: Overview, Documentation,
Standard, Custom, and More Info. Documentation contains detailed information about the source,
methodology, update cycle, and user instructions for the
data. Standard presents a series of summary or analytical
tables that are designed for the convenience of most users.
Custom allows users who want more detailed information to
query the database.
Data Revisions
The databases on export subsidies and domestic support notifications
were updated on June 15, 2004, and contain notifications
posted on the WTO website as of that date.
Questions and Answers
Answers to
questions such as: When are the data updated? Where
are the original sources of the data? How do I create a
custom query? How do I save my query results?
Glossary
See the WTO Briefing
Room Glossary for explanations of the trade and policy
concepts used in the database.
Related Resources
WTO Briefing Room
Agricultural Market Access Database
World Trade Organization
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