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USDA defends ag payments as WTO-compliant amid ongoing questions

October 22, 2020 at 4:44 PM
The U.S. is expected to exceed its World Trade Organization limit on agricultural domestic support for 2019 and 2020, congressional researchers say in a new report, though the Agriculture Department insists the programs were designed with the WTO constraints in mind. WTO members have pressed the U.S. on its large injections of fiscal support, which the Trump administration has said were necessary to compensate farmers for trade- and pandemic-related damage. U.S. lawmakers -- on both sides of the aisle --...

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