Studying on domestic subsidies is very important for traders who are competing in international markets for their exports.

1. Session VI ： Classroom exercise on
WTO AOA Domestic Subsidies
Preparation of Country reports
15th
May (Mon)
11.45 – 1.45
Htun Aung Zaw, Roll no. 3

2. Step 1: product from Myanmar that is to
be exported
Myanmar:
• Rice

3. Identification of Green Box Subsidies in major competing countries (L2 players)
Country Item Subsidies
China Rice
General services (Research, Pest and disease control, Training, Extension and
advisory Services, Inspection services, Marketing and promotion Services,
Infrastructural services), Public stockholding for food security purposes, Domestic
food aid, Decoupled income support, Income insurance and income safety-net
programmes, Payments for relief from natural Disasters, Environmental
programmes, Regional assistance programmes
Thailand Rice
General Service (Agricultural Research and Development Plan, Pest and Disease
Control Project, National Extension and Advisory Services, Agricultural Training
Services, Infrastructural Services, Inspection Services, Marketing and Promotion of
Farmers’ Organisation Programme(Information Programme)
Vietnam Rice
General services (Research , Training services, Extension and advisory Services,
Infrastructure services, Pest and disease control services, Quarantine and inspection
services, Trade promotion and market information services), Public stockholding for
food security purposes, Domestic food aid , Government financial participation in
crop insurance Schemes
Myanmar: Rice exporting countries (China, Thailand, Vietnam)

4. Country Item Product-specific
AMS
De minimis level
(10% of
production value)
Current Total
AMS(aggregate)
Remark
China rice 75.57 446.83 0.00
2010-(hundred
million RMB
yuan)
Thailand
rice
29654.11 30666.30
0.00
2008-(hundred
million RMB
yuan)
Vietnam
rice
7108.40 23193.20
0.00 2013-(VND
billion)
AMS calculations and deminimus

5. Amber box subsidies in Myanmar for rice
• Download WTO notifications FOR YOUR COUNTRY
( Nil)
• List down the products on which subsidy is extended
( Nil)
• Check on which products your government can keep giving subsidies
( Nil)

6. Amber box subsidies in Myanmar for rice
• Download WTO notifications FOR YOUR COUNTRY
( Nil)
• List down the products on which subsidy is extended
( Nil)
• Check on which products your government can keep giving subsidies
( Nil)