America has now put forward radical proposals for all countries to abolish agricultural export subsidies.

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Cheekily, perhaps, in view of its own farm bill, Washington has proposed the eventual abolition of all agricultural export subsidies and a limit on domestic farm subsidies of 5% of the value of total domestic production.

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Removing export subsidies on agricultural products would raise the price of those products on world markets.

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