Given the low current use of export subsidies, their complete elimination, desirable as it would be in terms of aligning WTO rules for agriculture with those for other sectors, would not have much effect on actual market conditions. This differs from the past, when agricultural exports were still subsidised at a much larger scale by some countries. The two OECD studies mentioned in the previous section have looked not only into the impact that improvements in market access might have, but also analysed the market impacts of eliminating export subsidies. In the earlier study (OECD, 2002b), it turned out that impacts on world market prices for crops (wheat, coarse grains, oilseeds) and beef were minimal (between -2% and 1% in the final year of the five-year projection period).