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.
Developing countries would benefit from the eradication of trade-distorting export practices and the reduction of domestic subsidies that can undermine otherwise competitive production in these poor countries.
There have been prospective alterations in, and even reductions of, the trade-distorting support, but they have not always worked.
I am thinking in particular of agricultural market access, a reduction in trade-distorting subsidies, and special and differential treatment for poorer countries.
Firstly, whilst there is visible progress in this reform on the elimination or the reduction of trade-distorting internal support, what about market access?
We must work towards abolishing all developed countries’ trade-distorting subsidies.
It is important to realise that we are talking about trade-distorting subsidies.
The second priority is to secure agreement on the appalling, trade-distorting agricultural subsidies; we helped enormously with that last week.
The third feature of the equation is the impact of massive, wholly disproportionate, trade-distorting domestic agricultural subsidies.
