Indeed, tendencies have been observed towards the undue use of non-tariff barriers to trade, hidden subsidies, discriminatory public procurement, forced technology transfer, managed exchange rates, and poor enforcement of social and environmental protection.

Should Teracom's terms and conditions for the provision of transmission services to SVT not be comparable to those of a normal market transaction, any payments in excess of the market price could raise concerns of possible disguised aid in favour of Teracom.

In parallel with the Member States’ action to tackle harmful tax competition pursuant to the Council’s Code of Conduct on Business Taxation (see IP/03/787), the Commission decided to investigate Luxembourg’s 1929 exempt holdings regime on the grounds that the tax exemption may constitute a disguised subsidy in favour of multinational companies based in Luxembourg and may distort the European financial market.

41. Notes that agriculture continues to be the principal source of income and employment in most developing countries, especially for the poorest and therefore stresses the importance of the offer made by the EU to abolish its export subsidies by 2013; insists that a parallel move by other WTO members is required; calls on the EU to continue advocating the abandonment of other — sometimes disguised — forms of export support such as export credits, food aid, State enterprises, etc., in order to remedy the existing trade imbalances between the North and the South and to make the agriculture of poor countries more profitable;

The Communication endorses continued EU monitoring of Korea's restructuring efforts in order to ensure that the South Korean Government keeps its pledges of transparency and non-interventionism, and respects conditions attached to international financial assistance packages such as the end of previous practices often characterized as "crony capitalism", which also often amounts to hidden subsidies.

Will the minister admit that, by overrating CN's assets, so as to increase the market value of the corporation, he is in fact using Canadian taxpayers' money to give foreign buyers an indirect subsidy?