Accordingly, the ambitious group demands transparent, criteria-based and reduced use of Green Box payments, while the cautious party intends to develop the Green Box as a flexible tool with which negative domestic non-trade effects of trade liberalization can be buffered and absorbed. The special consideration group also asserts such flexibility, but only for their particular domestic concerns such as food security and rural development, as well as reducing disparity in levels of domestic support among countries and easing the harm caused by developed country trade distortion. The cautious camp also asserts rural development as a non-trade concerns applying to all countries, but most other Members are rejecting.
