France has objected to the proposed 24 percent cut in the volume of subsidized exports.

What we fundamentally object to are subsidized exports in themselves, since these lead to ecological and social dumping.

Japan lived off other nations' research and development, and, in practice, subsidized exports while protecting against imports.

Competition a Factor She added that the costs were pushed even higher because of subsidized export competition.

Now the issue is subsidized exports.

The Bush Administration negotiated a 24-nation pact two years ago that set broad limits on subsidized export finance programs.

Those obligations include an annual limit on subsidized exports, which applies not only to quantities but also to the necessary budgetary expenditure.

The United States has criticized foreign countries' heavily subsidized export finance programs for many years, particularly European programs.

On export subsidies, he proposes a 36 percent cut in outlays and a 24 percent reduction in the quantity of subsidized exports.

And even efficient U.S. farmers can't compete against subsidized exports from the E.C.

The 1990 bill could open the levers for more subsidized exports by the United States, depending on the outcome of the Uruguay Round talks.

For months, the United States has been seeking steep reductions in Europe's subsidized exports of grain and subsidized production of oilseeds.

The two countries will try to define what are unfairly subsidized exports and what constitutes the dumping of goods at below fair value in their bilateral commerce.

An independent Government agency that investigates trade issues ruled today that subsidized exports of Canadian pork financially injure American hog producers.

High tariffs in the EU and cheap EU subsidized exports to South Africa were cited as the major factors.

Mr. Brown said that the United States needed its own program as "a club" to persuade other countries to agree to the mutual elimination of subsidized export credits.

The bank's charter requires proof of foreign subsidized export credit competition before the Ex-Im Bank can consider authorizing a direct loan for a United States exporter.

The five-member Free Trade Agreement panel late Thursday essentially found that the Commerce Department had not made its case that Canada subsidized exports.

And grain-exporting countries like Australia, Brazil and Canada complain bitterly that they are losing markets to subsidized exports from the United States and Europe.

In fairness, the United States is not alone in distorting the sugar trade, and the European Union's massively subsidized exports of beet sugar make it the biggest culprit.

Speculation that Pakistan might be offered 50,000 tons of United States soybean oil under a subsidized export program added further fuel to the soybean rally, Mr. Lespinasse said.

The United States has been seeking a 24 percent reduction in the community's tonnage of subsidized exports, while the community has been calling for no more than an 18 percent reduction.

The United States had exported chicken to Russia in the past, but those exports were eroded by political tensions and by subsidized exports from Western Europe and Brazil.

Moi was implicated in the 1990s Goldenberg scandal and subsequent cover-ups, where the Kenyan government subsidized exports of gold far in excess of the foreign currency earnings of exporters.

While the industry and its workers blame Government curbs for their troubles, there are at least three other factors - automation, Southeastern timber development and subsidized exports of logs for finishing in foreign mills.