RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SCM/Q2/JPN/24
3 February 1999
(99-0374)
Committee on Subsidies
and Countervailing MeasuresOriginal:  Spanish
SUBSIDIES
Questions from Mexico Regarding the
New and Full Notification of Japan1
The following communication, dated 18 January 1999, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Mexico.
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1. With regard to Programme 2, Support for Business Innovation (page 5), what are the criteria
for selection of the sectors designated eligible for the programme and under what conditions are they
granted loans?
- What is this programme's effect on international trade?
2. What is the nature of the subsidy (contract) under Programme 5 entitled Real World
Computing (RWC) (page 9)?
3. With regard to Programme 16, Subsidy for the Leather and Leather Goods Industries
(page 21), what is the nature of the grant to local government bodies or non-profit associations?
- What are the effects of this programme on firms in the leather and leather goods
industries?
- How does the programme contribute to improving the competitiveness of exports?
4. In the case of Programmes 78:  Measures for Rice, Wheat and Barley, 79:  Measures for
Soybean and Rapeseed and 80:  Measures for Sugar (pages 91, 93 and 94), what are the criteria for
granting the subsidies concerned and what conditions must be met by the beneficiaries?
- What are the trade effects of these programmes?
9. In connection with Programme 91, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Finance Corporation
Subsidy (page 106), what are its effects on the markets for these products?
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1 G/SCM/N/38/JPN + Suppl.1.