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IPCSpecial EventsClassifying Biofuel Subsidies: Farm Bill and WTO Considerations September 14, 2010 12:00 - 1:30 pm Rayburn Office Building Room B - 340
Governments use a number of measures to support the production and use of biofuels; in the U.S. biofuels subsidies totaled nearly $6billion in 2009. Corn use for ethanol in the U.S. has expanded corn demand by nearly 30%, driving corn prices, along with prices of other commodities, higher. Questions have been raised about whether such support should be considered as agricultural subsidies and about whether and how such support is being notified to the WTO. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Program on the American and Global Economy and the International Food & Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC) held a discussion on biofuels support in the context of the farm bill and WTO disciplines on subsidies. Agenda & Presentations: Chair: Kent Hughes, Direct of the Program on American and Global Economy Moderator: Charlotte Hebebrand, Chief Executive, IPC Discussants:
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