It promises to reduce the measures that most distort trade and to put a cap on direct payments to producers.

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They buy them on long term contracts direct from the producers.

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Direct Web buying, often aided by a logistics partner, allows many goods producers to sell direct.

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The purchase made Ispat one of the world's largest producers of direct-reduced iron, at 7 million tons a year.

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We want it to be easy for producers to sell direct to customers, if they wish.

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The same logic applies to public subsidies for any good or service where producers enjoy significant monopoly power: Direct provision of public goods has market forces on its side, while subsidies for private purchases work against the market.

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