WTO Disciplines on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

Dominic Coppens is an associate at Sidley Austin LLP's Geneva office, where he is a member of the firm's International Trade and Arbitration group. He advises governments and private stakeholders on international trade matters, with a focus on dispute settlement under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. He is also an associate member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

• General introduction; 1. Rationales for offering subsidies; Part I. Legal Disciplines on Subsidization and the Imposition of Countervailing Measures: 2. Historical overview; 3. Scope of the SCM Agreement; 4. Disciplines on subsidies; 5. Remedies; 6. Differential treatment; Part II. Case Study: WTO Disciplines on Export Credit Support: 7. Export credit support; 8. Rationale for disciplining export credit support: historical context; 9. Main elements of the OECD Arrangement; 10. Disciplines on export credit support for non-agricultural products; 11. Disciplines on export credit support for agricultural products; 12. Export credit support in light of the GATS; 13. Negotiations on export credit support disciplines in the Doha round; 14. Conclusion: normative analysis of disciplines on export credit support; Part III. Normative Analysis of Disciplines on Subsidization and the Imposition of Countervailing Measures: 15. The scope of the SCM Agreement: specific subsidies; 16. Disciplines on subsidization by developed countries; 17. Disciplines on subsidization by developing countries; 18. Disciplines on countervailing measures; 19. Disciplines on subsidies in light of policy responses to the economic crisis; Overall conclusion.

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