Trade-distorting subsidies may rise so much, Europeans fear, that America will break its Uruguay-round commitments.

ECONOMIST: What happened to free trade? | The

America's trade-distorting support was already well below its permitted ceiling and had seemed likely to fall further.

ECONOMIST: What happened to free trade? | The

Contrary to received wisdom, slashing the rich world's trade-distorting subsidies has a relatively small effect on poor countries.

ECONOMIST: Weighed in the balance