English to French Other International Org/Dev/Coop Agreement on agricultire; AMS domestic supports

The Agreement on Agriculture, which promised to discipline domestic supports from 1995 was not able to truly deliver because developed countries managed to organise the Agreement in such a way that their domestic supports continued and in fact were provided with legal cover, whilst developing countries were locked in at only de minimis levels of domestic supports.


In contrast, most developing countries which had provided zero AMS at the time of the Uruguay Round *saw their AMS being bound at zero*. I.e. they could later only provide de minimis AMS which developed countries also had. Developing countries could avail of Art 6.2’s input and investment subsidies for low-income or resource poor farmers. This was a Special and Differential Treatment provision.