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WTO Announces 1-Year Extension to Eliminate Certain Export Subsidy Programs

The World Trade Organization announces that on October 28, 2010, the Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures extended by another year — until the end of 2011 — the transition period for the elimination of certain export-subsidy programs of 19…

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developing countries. The beneficiary countries are the following: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Jamaica, Jordan, Mauritius, Panama, Papua New Guinea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Uruguay. Three export subsidy programs — one each from Belize, Fiji and Mauritius — have already been phased out.