This working paper summarizes annualestimates of covered product Nominal Rate of Assistance(NRAs), for each of the focus economies of Europe'stransition economies, their key distortion indicatorsdefined in Anderson et al. (2008), and provides some summarystatistics for the region's estimates. Four tables areprovided for each country: (a) the NRA to individual farmproducts covered in the study and their weighted average,using as weights production valued at undistorted prices;(b) the RRA to producers of agricultural tradable, againusing as weights production valued at undistorted prices,and the component parts of the RRA calculation; (c) theweights themselves for individual covered farm products andfor the residual non-covered group of products, shown aspercentages and so they sum to 100 percent; and (d) thetrade status of each covered product each year. The NRA inthe case of a product having just its output price distortedby government policies is the percentage by which thedomestic producer price exceeds the price that would prevailunder free markets, that is, the border price appropriatelyadjusted to account for differences in product quality,transport costs, processing costs, etc. A negative valueindicates the domestic price is below that comparable border price.
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