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United States of America:"Black liquor"subsidies to the paper industry

Description

A subsidy program that was intended to promote alternative fuels has been used by U.S. paper manufacturers to receive substantial payments from the U.S. Treasury for a practice that the industry emplo...

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Intervention Details

Intervention Type

Tax-based export incentive

MAST Chapter

P: Export-related measures (incl. subsidies)

Implementation date

01 Dec 2008

Revocation date

31 Dec 2009

Implementation level

National

Affected flow

Outward subsidy

Announced as temporary

No

Eligible firms

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