. /.RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/Q2/IND/12
24 April 2002
(02-2344)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  English
SUBSIDIES
Questions from the UNITED STATES Regarding
The New and Full Notification of INDIA1
The following communication, dated 23 April 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of the United States.
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India - Fertilizer Subsidy Programmes
The following questions are pursuant to Article XVI:1 of the GATT 1994 and Article 25.8 of
the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.
1. Would you please provide information concerning  India’s provision of subsidies (such as the
Retention Price and Subsidy Scheme) with respect to the production, importation, sale and/or
distribution of Diammonium Phospha te (DAP) fertilizer?  Specifically, please provide information on
the following:
(a) Background, authority, form of subsidies, and policy objective or purpose, including
a copy of the statutory authority and implementing regulations;
(b) Procedures for determining the subsidy payments for both domestically-produced
DAP and imported DAP and the actual subsidy payments made for both categories in
each of the past three years;
(c) An explanation of why the subsidy payments differ between domestically-produced
DAP and imported DAP and why the size of the difference has increased over time;
(d) The subsidy payments per unit for both domestically-produced DAP and imported
DAP and the annual amount budgeted for both the subsidy for domestically-producedDAP and the subsidy for imported DAP;
(e) Duration of the subsidy programme, and;(f) Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of the subsidy
programme, including Indian import levels of DAP during each of the past three
years.
                                                     
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2.  In addition, please provide information concerning the recipient of benefits under this
programme with respect to the production, importation, sale or distribution of DAP.
3. Finally, please indicate whether this programme was included as “Fertilizer subsidy” in your
“notification concerning domestic support commitments for marketing year 1995-96"(G/AG/N/IND/1, dated 17 June 1998).  If so, please explain why.
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