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Amber Box or Aggregate Measurement of Support refers to trade-distorting subsidies and subject to reduction commitments (i.e. such subsidies to be reduced over certain agreed period of time). As a result of the Uruguay negotiations, members had to quantify the value of these supports and inscribe it in their Schedules of Commitments. Amber Box policies include programmes such as market price support, direct payments and input subsidies.