The following is excerpted from a 23 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.
The Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, on 23 October 2012, approved the final extension of the transition period — until end 2013 — for export subsidy programmes of 19 developing countries. These programmes consist mainly of free trade zones and tax incentives.
The beneficiaries of the transition period are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guatemala, Jamaica, Jordan, Mauritius, Panama, Papua New Guinea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Uruguay.
This report is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news12_e/scm_23oct12_e.htm