Dominic Coppens is an associate at Sidley Austin LLP's Geneva office, where he is a member of the firm's International Trade and Arbitration group. He advises governments and private stakeholders on international trade matters, with a focus on dispute settlement under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. He is also an associate member of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

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General introduction
1. Rationales for offering subsidies
Part I. Legal Disciplines on Subsidization and the Imposition of Countervailing Measures: 2. Historical overview
3. Scope of the SCM Agreement
4. Disciplines on subsidies
5. Remedies
6. Differential treatment
Part II. Case Study: WTO Disciplines on Export Credit Support: 7. Export credit support
8. Rationale for disciplining export credit support: historical context
9. Main elements of the OECD Arrangement
10. Disciplines on export credit support for non-agricultural products
11. Disciplines on export credit support for agricultural products
12. Export credit support in light of the GATS
13. Negotiations on export credit support disciplines in the Doha round
14. Conclusion: normative analysis of disciplines on export credit support
Part III. Normative Analysis of Disciplines on Subsidization and the Imposition of Countervailing Measures: 15. The scope of the SCM Agreement: specific subsidies
16. Disciplines on subsidization by developed countries
17. Disciplines on subsidization by developing countries
18. Disciplines on countervailing measures
19. Disciplines on subsidies in light of policy responses to the economic crisis
Overall conclusion.

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