The Nairobi Package --- Although the Nairobi Package took a step forward in favor of Latin American and Caribbean countries, its real effects were less significant in the short term because the type of subsidies that were prohibited (direct budgetary outlays to producers on the condition that the product crosses the country's borders) had already been reduced in the last 15 years, and had effectively become non-existent for the US in 2002 and for the European Union in 2007.

Source author: Cecilia Treemonisha Barros Ruiz cbarros@sre.gob.mx