WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/USA/35
12 June 2001
(01-2897)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification concerning export subsidy commitments for fiscal year 1999
(Tables ES:1 and ES:2 ) was received from the delegation of the United States  on 1 June 2001.G/AG/N/USA/35
Page 2Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  United States of America
REPORTING PERIOD:  1999
Export Subsidies:  Budgetary Outlays  and Quantity Reduction Commitments
Description of products Calendar / marketing year
beginning  (1)Subsidised exports Food aid (2) Annual commitment levels
Outlays
US$Quantity
tonnesQuantity
tonnesOutlays
US$Quantity
tonnes
12 3 4 5 6 7
Wheat 0 0 5,315,092 (3) 444,151,539 15,665,307
Coarse grains 0 0 78,151 (4) 50,441,295 1,629,740
Rice 0 0 935,575 5,036,310 85,175
Vegetable oils 0 0 1,440,380 21,858,224 230,547
Butter and butter oil 7,318,465 5,298 (5) 0 33,356,335 25,475
Skim milk powder 45,333,000 101,383 (6) 260,576 90,194,929 76,207Cheese 5,564,383 3,864 (7) 0 3,976,479 3,190
Other milk products 20,304,243 17,908 (8) 9,250 2,891,603 2,518
Bovine meat 0 0 44,946 24,961,744 18,369
Pigmeat 0 0 50,005 543,654 413
Poultry meat 1,643,460 2,495 74,163 15,919,342 29,235
Live dairy cattle (head) 0 0 0 12,995,302 11,513Eggs (dozen) 0 0 0 2,801,167 11,588,045
(1) All quantity commitments are for the period:  1 July 1999 through 30 June 2000 while budgetary outlay commitments are implem ented on fiscal year basis beginning on 1 October
1999.
(2) Data is for food aid to all destinations.(3) Includes wheat, bulgur wheat and wheat flour on wheat equivalent basis.
(4) Sorghum.
(5) Includes butter, butteroil, anhydrous milkfat and ghee on a butter equivalent basis.(6) In accordance with the notification requirements (G/AG/2, page 24, paragraph 1) the flexibility used in the 1999 reporting p eriod was 25,176 tonnes of previously unused quantities.
(7) In accordance with the notification requirements (G/AG/2, page 24, paragraph 1) the flexibility used in the 1999 reporting p eriod was $1,587,904 of previously unused outlays, and
674 tonnes of previously unused quantities.
(8) In accordance with the notification requirements (G/AG/2, page 24, paragraph 1) the flexibility used in the 1999 reporting p eriod was $17,412,640 of previously unused outlays, and
15,390 tonnes of previously unused quantities.G/AG/N/USA/35
Page 3Supporting Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  United States of America
REPORTING PERIOD:  1999
Export Subsidies:  Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments
Description of products Direct
export
subsidies (1)
'000 US$Sales of
stocksProducer
financed
subsidiesCost reduction
measuresInternal
transport
subsidiesTotal product
specific
export
subsidies (1)
'000 US$Quantity of
subsidised
exports
(2)
tonnesData source
12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Wheat 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS (3)
Coarse grains 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
Rice 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
Vegetable oils 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
Butter and butter oil 7,318,465 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7,318,465 5,298 USDA/FASSkim milk powder 45,333,000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 45,333,000 101,383 USDA/FAS
Cheese 5,564,383 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5,564,383 3,864 USDA/FAS
Other milk products 20,304,243 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 20,304,243 17,908 USDA/FAS
Bovine meat 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
Pigmeat 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FASPoultry meat 1,643,460 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1,643,460 2,495 USDA/FAS
Live dairy cattle (head) 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
Eggs (dozen) 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
(1) Budgetary outlays are on a fiscal year basis beginning 1 October 1999.
(2) Quantity commitments are reported for the 1 July 1999 through 1 June 2000 period.(3) USDA/FAS:  The United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service.G/AG/N/USA/35
Page 4Table ES:2
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  United States of America
REPORTING PERIOD:  1999
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports
Description of products Marketing year 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000 Unit Quantity of total exports
12 3
Bovine meat tonnes 832,830
Live dairy cattle head 9,100
Pigmeat tonnes 226,566
Poultry meat tonnes 2,286,268
Eggs dozen 85,558,738
Cheese tonnes 24,934
Coarse grains tonnes 8,128,264
Rice (1) tonnes 1,948,296
Skim milk powder tonnes 141,819
Other milk products tonnes 10,356
Wheat tonnes 28,968,203
Oilseeds tonnes 26,848,918
Butter and butter oil tonnes 7,285
Oilcakes tonnes 12,529,951
Vegetables tonnes 2,665,994
Vegetable oils tonnes 1,156,218
Fruit tonnes 2,600,408
Tobacco tonnes 179,631
Cotton bales 6,252,166
(1) Data for rice is provided separately because rice is not incl uded in coarse grains, and does not receive any export subsidy.
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