Customs Union to bring state support share to 10% in agriculture.

ALMATY, June 9 (Itar-Tass) -- The Customs Union states agreed that
they would bring the state support share in the agrarian and industrial
sector to ten percent from the gross agricultural production cost, Kazakh Deputy Agriculture Minister Arman Yevniyev said on Wednesday.

The discussion on the creation of a common economic space and the WTO
entry talks exposed that the state support share in Kazakhstan is
estimated at 4.5%, 2.5% in Russia and 18% in Belarus from the gross
agricultural production cost. "Different state support shares are obvious,
and the signing, discussion and drafting of agreements within the Customs
Union are targeted at making this indicator more equal," Yevniyev noted.
"At the negotiations we agreed that Belarus should gradually bring
down the state support share to ten percent, but Russia and Kazakhstan
should raise this level. This is also among the instruments that the
Customs Union and the creation of the common economic space give us now,"
the Kazakh deputy agriculture minister said.
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