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WTO Subsidy Notifications: Assessing German subsidies under the GSI notification template proposed for the WTO

By Michael Thöne, Stephan Dobroschke on May 20, 2008

This report uses Germany as the test case in applying a template developed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) for notifying subsidies to the World Trade Organization. The study reveals the template vastly improves subsidy reporting.The study's conservative approach identifies 180 specific subsidy programs that should have been notified (totalling € 10.8 billion) for 2006, rather than 11 subsidies notified by Germany (with a total value of € 1.25 billion).

Report details

Topic
Subsidies
Focus area
Climate
Publisher
IISD
Copyright
IISD, 2008