71.   Poor countries, many of whom depend on agriculture as their principal exports, were backing the call for eliminating the subsidies.

72.   President Ronald Venetiaan is trying to eliminate government subsidies as part of a three-year program of economic reforms.

73.   The IMF wants the new law to eliminate a subsidy to oil companies for losses caused by fluctuations in the world prices of oil products.

74.   The new plan also will ease the burden on the strained national budget by eliminating subsidies for social security payments.

75.   The trade bill, he said, would eliminate the subsidies and enable him to garner a greater share of corn sales to China.

76.   Governments should also eliminate subsidies for destructive activities such as fishing, mining, and use of fossil fuels, Worldwatch said.

77.   An agricultural attache at the Canadian High Commission in Canberra meanwhile told AFP that direct port subsidies had been eliminated although some soft loans were available to farmers.

78.   Almost all state subsidies have been eliminated, public companies have been privalized, foreign trade liberalized and the Sudanese pound floated.

79.   Countries such as Iceland, New Zealand and Norway have shown that harmful subsidies can be eliminated, the WWF said.

80.   Now that freight subsidies have been eliminated, remote coal mines find it more difficult to compete with natural gas.