Besides the ordinary shops accessible to anyone - selling subsidized goods but often with bare shelves - are the 'commercial' shops only for those who can afford it.

Mrs. Johnson has fought to halt unfair foreign trade policies, like the dumping of subsidized goods in this country.

The cost alone of supplying subsidized goods to Iraqis amounts to 1.6 billion dollars a year, experts said.

Prices of all subsidized goods except transportation will remain frozen until March 1988 under the agreement the Government signed with the powerful Histadrut Trade Federation and the Industrialists Association.

A Sony executive pointed out that Sony has already put more than $1 million into CBS's football broadcasts, primarily in subsidized goods and services.

The costs induced by rising inflation, real estate prices, and demand for subsidized goods has been shouldered by Syrian consumers and the state budget.

The issue with removing subsidies is that the people who previously depended on subsidized goods, such as education, may not be able to afford very necessary services.

Government supermarkets, where corrupt employees have long profited from diverting such subsidized goods to the black markets, were burned down.

Besides safeguard measures, there are also antidumping measures, which countries can impose to ward off foreign products sold in their markets below cost, and there are countervailing duties to protect against subsidized goods.

They will see steep rises in the prices of electricity, gasoline, refined oil products and essential food like bread and meat, which will be eased out of the long list of subsidized goods.