At present, export subsidies and support payments represent less than 1% of the European agricultural budget, and the EU has undertaken to eliminate them once it receives reciprocal undertakings from major food-exporting countries. Since 2001, with the “Everything but Arms” initiative, all products from poor countries – with the exception of weapons and munitions – can enter the EU single market on a duty-free basis.
但是欧洲不能在危害贫困国家的基础上壮大自身的农业。所以，欧盟必须与穷国协调其政策。目前，出口补贴以及援助款项只占欧洲农业预算的1%不到，而且欧盟已经开始在得到其他主要食品出口国家对等许诺的时候消除它们。从2001年以来，根据“排除军火”倡议，来自贫困国家的武器弹药以外的所有产品均可以免税进入欧盟单一市场。这就让欧盟成为了最贫困国家产品的主要市场。