Subsidies given to producers or exporters that are contingent, in law or in fact, on the export of their goods or services.
Government payments or other financially quantifiable benefits provided to domestic producers or exporters contingent on the export of their goods or services. GATT Article XVI recognizes that subsidies in general and particularly export subsidies can distort trade and hinder the achievement of GATT objectives. An Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures was negotiated in the Tokyo Round to elaborate upon the GATT rules.
Government payments or other financially quantifiable benefits provided to domestic producers or exporters contingent on the export of their goods and services. GDP/GNP (Gross Domestic/National Product): The total of goods and services produced by a country.
Special incentives, such as cash payments, extended by governments to encourage increased foreign sales; often used when a nations domestic price for a good is artificially raised above world market prices.
Any form of government payment that helps an exporter or manufacturing concern to lower its export costs.
Government payments to induce exportation by domestic producers.
Special incentives provided by governments to encourage increased foreign sales. Subsidies, which are contingent on export performance, may take the form of cash payments, disposal of government stocks at below-market prices, subsidies financed by producers or processors as a result of government actions such as assessments, marketing subsidies, transportation and freight subsidies, and subsidies for commodities contingent on their incorporation in exported products.
Special incentives, such as cash payments, tax exemptions, preferential exchange rates and special contracts extended by governments to encourage increased foreign sales.
