Hopefully we are not going to bump up against this limit, because it is going to be very complicated however we do it, if we bump against a WTO provision that says we have got to pay back and somehow reduce the subsidies that have already gone out.
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Discussing potential complications related to WTO provisions during a legislative debate.
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