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World Trade
The treatment of export subsidies in trade agreements is puzzling. It is often observed that export subsidies distort market forces and lead to inefficient patterns of trade, and that the use of export subsidies should be restricted by international agreement for this reason. Formalizing this position, however, has proven to be surprisingly elusive. In fact, formal arguments for the treatment of export subsidies in trade agreements point to a starkly di¤erent conclusion: rather than restrain export subsidies, international agreements should, if anything, encourage them.1 At a basic level, this conclusion reects the trade-volume-expanding nature of export subsidies, which generally aligns these policies with the purpose of a trade agreement. In practice, the treatment of export subsidies is also complex, and has evolved over time from the early years of the General Agreement on Tari¤s and Trade (GATT) to the creation of GATTs successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO).2 In the early GATT era, a permissive stance was taken on export subsidies, amounting to little more than reporting requirements. Over time GATT restrictions on the use of export subsidies were progressively tightened, and during the nal GATT negotiation round (the Uruguay Round) in which the WTO was created, a more comprehensive approach to subsidies was introduced in the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures the SCM Agreement) which includes a prohibition on the use of export subsidies.3 Theoretical attempts to understand and interpret the treatment of export subsidies in trade agreements face two challenges. A rst challenge is to nd situations in which a government actually would be tempted to use an export subsidy. A second challenge is to show that a ceiling on export subsidies would then be bene cial for the negotiating governments. The rst step has been taken in the distinct literatures on strategic trade policy and on the political economy of trade policy. The second step...
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