0 used to describe a tax or action that changes the normal characteristics of trade:
Some experts believe that trade-distorting agricultural subsidies are partly responsible for increases in global food prices.
But in the case of agriculture you have, exceptionally, a system of agricultural support and in some cases export subsidies which has been very trade-distorting.
Let us consider the question of substantial reductions in trade-distorting agricultural subsidies.
This includes substantial cuts in high tariffs and in trade-distorting subsidies.
Surely there must be one worldwide standard of what constitutes a trade-distorting practice.
The negotiations will aim to further improve market access and dismantle the different types of trade-distorting aid.
What are we actually going to do to achieve these substantial reductions in trade-distorting subsidies?
So we were able to deliver an 80% reduction in trade-distorting domestic support, without actually damaging our agricultural sector.
The third feature of the equation is the impact of massive, wholly disproportionate, trade-distorting domestic agricultural subsidies.
