{"id":233326,"date":"2023-03-21T23:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=233326"},"modified":"2023-03-21T23:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:19:50","slug":"green-box-amber-box-blue-box","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-box-amber-box-blue-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Green box -Amber box &#8211; Blue box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agreement on Agriculture classifies domestic subsidies into various categories:<\/p>\n<p>Green box: It includes subsidies which do not cause any trade distortion or cause very minimal distortions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are not product specific subsidies. These are direct income support to farmers who are distressed due to crop loss or any such other calamity.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, they are allowed by the WTO.<\/li>\n<li>Examples include, research funding, environment protection etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amber box: These are the subsidies that distort international trade by promoting excessive production.\u00a0As a result, the products become cheaper than their counterparts from other countries.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Examples include, input subsidies such as subsidies on seeds, fertilisers, Minimum Support Price (MSP) etc.<\/li>\n<li>WTO limits this subsidy by capping it at 5% of their total agriculture production for developed countries &amp; 10% for developing countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blue box: These are basically amber box subsidies but they tend to limit production.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently only few countries like Norway, Iceland use these kinds of subsidies.<\/li>\n<li>There is no cap by the WTO on these kinds of subsidies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agreement on Agriculture classifies domestic subsidies into various categories: Green box: It includes subsidies which do not cause any trade distortion or cause very minimal distortions. They are not product specific subsidies. These are direct income support to farmers who are distressed due to crop loss or any such other calamity. Therefore, they are allowed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-box-amber-box-blue-box\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green box -Amber box &#8211; Blue box<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}