permitted supports linked to production, but subject to production limits and therefore minimally trade distorting. Box : agriculture : category of domestic support
Rules that exempt certain domestic support from the commitment on Total AMS. Blue box exempt support consists of direct payments under production-limiting programs, which also meet certain criteria. Blue box payments must be based on a fixed area and yields, on 85% or less of the base production, or on a fixed number of head of livestock.
A special category of subsidies permitted under the WTO Agriculture Agreement, it includes payments that are linked to production but with provisions to limit production through production quotas or requirements to set aside land from production.
Permitted supports that are linked to production limits, and therefore viewed as minimally trade-distorting. Amber box: Supports considered to distort trade and that therefore are subject to reduction commitments. See “Agreement on Agriculture.
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A Blue Box container is a rigid plastic container used to hold recyclable materials. It was introduced in the recycling programs, often called the 'Blue Box program' in Ontario and British Columbia in the 1980s. Blue Boxes were first introduced in Kitchener, Ontario's East Ward neighborhood.