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In 2002, Brazil-one of the major exporters of cotton to the global market-challenged particular policies of the United States cotton agenda. Two years later, a conflict resolution body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the assailed provisions of the US cotton program regarding “support payments” and assurances, inclusive of payments to cotton manufacturers within the “marketing loan and counter-cyclical” programs as well as the “export credit guarantees of the GSM-102 agenda, were found to be incompatible with agreements committed to under the ambit of the WTO (Schnepf 1).
Cotton represents 0.2 percent of Brazil’s GDP;
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