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

Announcement

02 May 2009

In May 2009, the government of the United States of America announced a change in the tax legislation for exporters.

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Number of interventions

1

0 certainly harmful

1 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

0 in force

Implementation date

01 Dec 2008

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Tax-based export incentive

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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