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ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/SPEC/ALB/4/Rev.2 
15 June 1999 
 (99-2416) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of Albania Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF ALBANIA 
 
Agriculture Schedules  
 
Revision  
 
  The following revised agricu lture schedules have been received from the Ministry of 
Economic Cooperation and Trade of the Republic of Albania. 
 
 
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Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support 
 
 
Total AMS commitment level for period in question  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  
Currency1: Leke (1,000) 
(from Section I of Part IV of the 
Schedule)  
Current Total AMS (1,000 leke) 
(from attached Supporting Tables) 
 
1996:  
 
Total product-specific support -- market price support: none. Total non-product-specific support -- non-exempt direct payments: none. 
Total other product-specific support: none. 
 Total green box support:   
 
 
0 leke 0 leke 
0 leke 
 
1,578,861 leke  
 
 
  
 
 
Total AMS:  1,578,861 leke 
 
1997:  
 
Total product-specific support -- market price support: none. 
Total non-product-specific support -- non-exempt direct payments: none. Total other product-specific support: none. 
 
Total green box support:   
 
 
0 leke 
0 leke 0 leke 
 
1,535,750 leke  
 
 
 
  
 
Total AMS:  1,535,750 leke 
 
1998:  
 
Total product-specific support -- market price support: none. 
Total non-product-specific support -- non-exempt direct payments: none. Total other product-specific support: none. 
 
Total green box support:   
 
 
0 leke 
0 leke 0 leke 
 
1,564,442 leke  
 
 
 
  
 
Total AMS:  1,564,442 leke 
 
Note: 
1 The value of the exchange rate for the respective years are as  follows: $US 1 = 104.50 leke; $US 1 = 149.10 leke; $US 1 = 151. 50 leke. 
  
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Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment -- "Green Box" 
 
 
Measure type and subcategory of measure as defined in Annex 21  
Monetary value of measure in year in question 
(1,000 Leke2)  
 
Data sources3  
   
1996  
1997  
1998  
 
(a) "General services" 
Research services Training services 
Extension and advisory services 
Inspection services Infrastructural services (including those for environmental measures) 
       Total general services  
 
 33,000 
     780 
14,200 
157,000 704,100 
909,080  
 
38,800 
400 
13,100 
148,400 414,500 
615,200  
 
46,000 
1,000 
21,000 
175,000 661,000 
904,000  
 
MAF; MES 
MAF 
MAF 
MAF MAF 
 
(b) "public stockholding for food security purposes"  
4  
375,000  
30,970  
MAF 
 
(c) "domestic food aid"  
4,400  
0  
0  
MAF 
 
(d) "decoupled income support"  
0  
0  
0  
MAF 
 
(e) "income insurance and income safety-net programs"  
0  
0  
0  
MF 
 
(f) "payments for relief from natural disasters"  
9,000  
22,500  
0  
MAF 
 
(g) "structural adjustment assistance through producer retirement programs"  
0  
0  
0  
MAF 
 
(h) "structural adjustment assistance through resource retirement programs"  
0  
0  
0  
MAF 
 
(i) "structural adjustment assistance through resource investment aids"  
38,500  
40,000  
33,500  
MAF 
 
(j) "environmental programs"   
0  
0  
0  
MAF 
      
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(k) "regional assistance programs" 0 0 0 MAF 
 
(l) "other programs"  
622,281  
483,050  
595,972  
MAF 
 
Total Domestic Support: "Green Box"  
1,583,261  
1,535,750  
1,564,442  
 
 
Notes: 1 A description of each the measures follows this page. 
2 The value of the exchange rate for the respective years is: $US 1= 104.50 leke; $US 1 = 149.10 leke; $US 1 = 151.50 leke.  The  data presented are 
budget data but represent actual expenditures.  The Ministry of  Agriculture and Food's expenditu res cannot exceed the appropria tions provided in the 
budget. 
3  MAF refers to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture; MF refers to the Ministry of Finance; and MES refers to the Ministry of E ducation and Science. 
4  The expenditures reported in 1997 is the total amount spent for 1996 and 1997. 
  
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Supporting Table DS:1 (continued) 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment -- "Green Box" 
 
 
Measure type by subcategory as defined in Annex 2 
  
Descriptions of the "green box" programs 
 (a) "General services" 
Research services 
Training services 
Extension and advisory services Inspection services 
Infrastructural services 
  
  
Research expenditures funded 12 scientific institutions such as universities, technical institutions, and other 
institutions involved in primary scientific investigation.   Expenditures on training services were for funding an 
agricultural mechanization school.   Expenditures for extension and advisory services consist of funding for an 
agricultural information center and for a veterina ry project for pest and diseases control. 
Inspection services include expenditures to fund diagnostic  veterinary services, diagnostic agricultural services, 
control services include veterinary, food and seed control, and for chemicals used in agricultural laboratories 
for food/vet control.  Infrastructural services provided funding for water supply facilities (e.g.,  drainage and 
pumping station), the  restoration of rural infrastructure, restoration of irrigation systems and the small-scale 
irrigation schemes throughout the country that are provided by the water enterprises.  Infrastructural services 
include environmental protection and conservation measures of the following types: dams for rivers to avoid flooding, to prevent brush fires, soil erosion, and the salination of land, etc. 
 
(b) "Public stockholding for food security purposes" 
  
The GOA has maintained grain reserv es.  The budget data reflects storage costs, transportation and other 
marketing costs. The grain reserves maintained by the government of Albania do not affect prices, because the 
grain is sold by auction and quantities kept under stat e reserves account for less than one percent of total 
domestic requirements.  Moreover, the quantity kept under state reserves is being reduced as a commitment taken in the framework of the Enhanced Structural  Adjustment Facilities (ISAF) program of the IMF. 
 
(c) "domestic food aid"  
A program to provide consumers with cheaper prices for bread was administered through a price ceiling on 
flour for bread.  Agricultural pro ducers of wheat received the market price for their commodity; however, 
processors (e.g., millers and/or bake rs) faced a price ceiling.  The governm ent made indirect payments (e.g., 
lower value-added tax rates, lower electricity rates and ut ility rates) to the processors equal to the difference 
between the reference price (34.00 leke/kg) and the app lied administered price (29.60 leke/kg).  The eligible 
amount of production was 1,000,000 kg.  This program was discontinued in July 1996. 
 
(d) "Decoupled income support"  
There are no (and have never been any) programs involving decoupled income support.  
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(e) "Income insurance and income safety-net 
programs"  
There are no (and have never been any) programs involving income insurance and income safety-nets. 
 
(f) "Payments for relief from natural disasters"  
This is extraordinary intervention in the form of direct  payments to producers for relief from natural disasters 
(e.g., in times of severe flooding).  In 1998 , there were no disaster relief payments made. 
 
(g) "Structural adjustment assistance through producer 
retirement programs"  
There are no (and have never been any) ad justment assistance programs of this sort. 
 
(h) "Structural adjustment assistance through resource 
retirement programs"  
There are no (and have never been any) ad justment assistance programs of this sort. 
 
(i) "Structural adjustment assistance through resource 
investment aids"  
Structural adjustment assistance thro ugh resource investment in agriculture has taken two forms: (1) a land 
registration program following the land privatization process and (2) the creation of a market for land to facilitate the consolidation of ownership of land an d physical holdings (i.e., other immovable assets). 
 
(j) "Environmental programs"   
There are no (and have never been any) direct payments for producers for these types of programs. 
 
(k) "Regional assistance programs"  
There are no (and have never been any) regional assistance programs. 
 
(l) "Other programs"  
Other programs consist of projects as sociated with central- and district -level administration which provide 
general services including the commission of land (i.e ., involving ownership related matters such as the 
privatization of agricultural enterprises) and for dispute settlement cases (including cases involving joint venture arrangements with foreigners when there are dis pute settlement issues pending).  The general services 
provided for the commission of land are to assist in covering court costs associated with land settlement, land 
ownership, and privatization issues.   
  
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Table DS:2 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Co mmitment -- Specia l and Differential Treatment - "Development Programs" 
 
 
 
Type of Measure  
 
Name and description of measure with  reference to criteria in Article 
6:2  
Monetary value of year of 
measure (1,000 Leke)   
Data 
 sources 
  1996 1997 1998  
 
(a) "Investment subsidies generally available to 
agriculture"  
There are no (and have not been any) investment subsidies that are 
generally available, except for international projects (e.g. IFAD and the World Bank).  These programs have involved irrigation systems in low-
land fields (World Bank) and small-scale irrigation systems (IFAD) in 
the higher elevations throughout Alba nia.  These are the programs that 
are discussed in item (i) of Supporting Table DS:1.  
0  
0  
0  
MAF 
 (b) "Input subsidies generally available to low-
income or resource-poor producers"  
Water for irrigation at subsidized rates has been provided to producers, 
but the program was permanently discontinued in June 1998.  
300.00  
271.20  
339.00  
MAF 
 
(c) "Support to encourage diversification from 
growing illicit narcotic crops"  
There are and have not been any diversification program of this type.  
0  
0  
0  
MAF 
 
  
Note:  Table DS:3 (Domestic Support; Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment – Direct Payments under Production-limiting Programs - "Exempt Direct 
Payments") is withdrawn fr om the Schedule on Agriculture as Albania is not requesting developing country status in its accessio ns to the WTO.  
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Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support 
 
 
Description of basic products (including 
non-product specific AMS)  
Product-specific AMS (from Supporting 
Tables DS:5 to DS:7 below)  
Product-specific measurements of 
support (from Supporting Table 
DS:8 below)  
Current Total AMS (aggregate) 
 Calendar Year 1996: 
 (a) "Product-specific support" 
   None. 
 
(b) "Non-product-specific support" 
None.  
 
 
0.00 
  
0.00  
 
 
0.00 
  
0.00  
Total support for flour (from 
supporting tables DS:5 to DS:8): 
0.00 
Total non-product -specific (from 
supporting table DS:9 below)             
0.00 
Total: Current total AMS:                 
0.00 
 
Calendar Year 1997: 
 
(a) "Product-specific support" 
 
    None.  
 
(b) "Non-product-specific support"    None. 
  
 
 
 
0.00 
 
 
0.00  
 
 
 
0.00 
 
 
0.00  
Total product-specific support  
 (from supporting tables DS:5 
 to DS:8 below):                                
0.00 
Total non-product -specific (from 
supporting table DS:9 below):           
0.00 
Total: Current total AMS:                 
0.00  
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Calendar Year 1998: 
 
 
(a) "Product-specific support" 
    None.  
 
(b) "Non-product-specific support"    None. 
  
 
 
 
0.00 
 
 
0.00  
 
 
 
0.00 
 
 
0.00  
Total product-specific support  
 (from supporting tables DS:5 
 to DS:8 below):                                
0.00 
Total non-product -specific (from 
supporting table DS:9 below):           
0.00 
Total: Current total AMS:                 
0.00 
  
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Table DS:5 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Market Price Support 
 
 
Description of basic 
products 
 
1  
Calendar year 
beginning 
 
2  
Types of  
measures 
 
3  
Applied 
administered 
price (leke/kg) 
4  
External reference 
price (leke/kg) 
 
5  
Eligible 
production (kg) 
 
6  
Associated fees 
 or levies 
 
7  
Total market 
price support 
((4-5*6)-7) 
8  
Data  
sources 
 
9 
 
Calendar Year 1996: 
 Products:  
 
None.   
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
 0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1997: 
 
Products:   
 
None.   
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1998: 
 
Products: 
 
None. 
  
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
 
  
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Table DS:6 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98  
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Non-Exempt Direct Payments 
 
 
Description of 
basic products 
 
 
1  
Calendar 
year 
beginning 
 
2  
Types of  
measures 
 
 
3  
Applied 
administered  
price (leke/kg) 
 
4  
External  
reference 
(generally from 
AGST/..) 
5  
Eligible 
production 
 
 
6  
Total price-
related  
direct 
payments 
7  
Other non-
exempt 
direct 
payments 
8  
Associated 
fees or 
levies 
 
9  
Total direct 
payments 
(7+8-9) 
 
10  
Data  
sources 
 
 
11 
 
Calendar Year 1996: 
 Products:  
 
None.  
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
  0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1997: 
 
Products:   
 None.   
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
  0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1998: 
 
Products: 
 
None.   
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
  0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
 
  
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Table DS:7 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Other Product-Specific Support and Total Product-Specific AMS 
 
 
Description of 
basic products 
 
 
 
1  
Calendar 
year 
beginning 
 
 
2  
Types of  
measures 
 
 
 
3  
Other product-
specific 
budgetary 
outlays 
 
4  
Other product-
specific support 
(include details) 
 
 
5  
Associated 
fees or 
levies 
 
 
6  
Total other 
product-
specific 
support 
 
7  
Market 
price 
support 
(supporting 
table DS:6) 
8  
Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(supporting 
table DS:6) 
9  
Total 
AMS 
(7+8-9) 
 
 
10  
Data  
sources 
 
 
 
11 
 
Calendar Year 1996: 
 Products:  
 None.  
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1997: 
 
Products:   
 
None.   
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
  0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1998: 
 
Products: 
 
None. 
  
 
 
January  
 
 
No measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
  0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
  
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Table DS:8 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Product-Specific Equivalent Measurements of Support 
 
 
Description 
of basic 
products 
 
 
 
1  
Calendar 
year 
beginning 
 
 
 
2  
Types of  
measures 
 
 
 
 
3  
Applied 
administered 
price 
 
 
 
4  
Production 
eligible to 
receive the 
applied 
administered 
price 
5  
Market 
price 
support 
budgetary 
outlays 
 
6  
Equivalent 
measurement 
of support 
(include 
details of 
calculation) 
7  
Non-
exempt 
direct 
payments 
 
 
8  
Other 
product-
specific 
support 
 
 
9  
Associated 
fees or 
levies 
(7+8-9) 
 
 
10  
Total 
monetary 
value of 
equivalent 
commitment 
 
11  
Data  
source 
 
 
  
12 
 
Calendar Year 1996: 
 Products:  
 
None.  
 
 
January  
 
No 
measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1997: 
 
Products:   
 None.   
 
 
January  
 
No 
measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
  0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
Calendar Year 1998: 
 
Products: 
 
None. 
  
 
 
January  
 
No 
measure  
 
 
-  
 
 
-  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
0.00  
  
 
  0.00  
 
 
0.00  
 
 
MAF 
 
  
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Table DS:9 
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT:  REPUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Non-Product-Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Market Price Support 
 
 
Types of Measures 
 
 
 
 
1  
Calendar year 
beginning 
 
 
 
2  
Non-product-specific 
budgetary outlays 
 
 
3  
Other non-product-
specific support (include 
details of calculation) 
4  
Associated fees or 
levies 
 
 
 
5  
Total non-product-specific 
support 
 
 
 
6  
Data  
sources 
 
 
 
7 
 
1996:  None.  
January  
0.00  
0.00  
0.00  
0.00  
MAF 
 1997:  None.  
January  
0.00  
0.00  
0.00  
0.00  
MAF 
 
1998:  None.  
January  
0.00  
0.00  
0.00  
0.00  
MAF 
  
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Table ES:1 
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  RE PUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996 -98 
 
Export Subsidies: Budgetary Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments 
 
 
   
Subsidized Exports  
Food Aid  
Annual commitment levels 
(from Section II of Part IV) 
Description of 
products (from Section 
II of Part IV) 
1 Calendar year 
beginning 
 
2 Budgetary outlays 
 
 
3 Quantity 
 
 
4 Quantity 
 
 
5 Budgetary outlays 
 
 
6 Quantity 
 
 
7 
 
1996:  None.  
January  
0.00  
0  
0  
0.00  
0 
 1997:  None.  
January  
0.00  
0  
0  
0.00  
0 
 
1998:  None.  
January  
0.00  
0  
0  
0.00  
0 
 
Additional commitment: The Republic of Albania is binding its export subsidies for agricultural products at 0% at the time of a ccession. 
  
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Table ES:2 
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  RE PUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Export Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports 
 
 
Description of Products 
1  
Calendar year beginning 
2  
Quantity 
3 
 
1996:  Albania never used export subsidies.  
January  
0 
 1997:  Albania never used export subsidies.  
January  
0 
 
1998:  Albania never used export subsidies.  
January  
0 
 
Additional commitment: The Republic of Albania is binding the quantity of exports of agricultural products that are subsidized 0 metric tons at the time of accession. 
  
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Table ES:3 
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  RE PUBLIC  OF  ALBANIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar Years, 1996-98 
 
Export Subsidies: Notification of the Total Volume of Food Aid 
 
 
Description of Products 
 
1  
Calendar year beginning 
 
2  
Quantity of food aid to all destinations 
3 
 
1996: Albania did not provide food aid to any country.  
January  
0 
 1997: Albania did not provide food aid to any country.  
January  
0 
 
1998: Albania did not provide food aid to any country.  
January  
0 
 
Additional commitment: The Republic of Albania has not provided food aid; however, Albania commits to provide food aid with met hods consistent with the rules of the 
WTO.  Supporting tables ES:1 and ES:2 are not relevant in the case of Albania and are not included. 
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 Memorandum on the Responses to the Questions Re lated to Polices Affecting Foreign Trade in 
Agricultural Products  
 
(Guide to the Revisions to the Agricultural Schedule) 
 
 
1.  Albania has committed to bind its export s ubsidies at zero in value and volume.  The 
commitments appear in Tables ES:1 and ES:2, respectively. 
 2.  The data provided in the schedule on agri culture (WT/ACC/SPEC/A LB/4/Rev.1) for 1996, 
1997 and 1998 are final data and are not based on projections. 
 3.  The measures that were listed under envir onmental programs are now included under general 
services because these payments do not involve direct payments. 
 
4.  The measures listed under "other programs" in  the green box heading (Table DS:1) which are 
related to cost associated with maintaining the remaining state-owned assets and/or former 
state enterprises (e.g., flour mills, machinery stations, milk processing) do not involve any 
operating expenses.  The expenses involved payments for protection of the properties while they are to be sold via the privatization process.  These enterprises and/or assets are not 
engaged in production and therefore are not recei ving production subsidi es.  This entry has 
been removed from the schedule. 
 5.  Table DS:3 was removed form the schedule as requested.  Albania is not requesting 
developing country status and the commitment is stated immediately after Table DS:2.  
 
6.  The typographical error with supporting table DS:9 that once read "Product-Specific 
Aggregate Measures of Support: Market Price Support" now reads as "Non-Product-Specific Aggregate Measures of Support ". 
 7.  There was a scheduling error in Table DS:5 (which also affected Tables DS:4 and DS:1) due 
to a misunderstanding of how the price ceiling on flour for bread was administered. It was 
interpreted as a price ceiling on the wheat rather  than on the flour.  As a result, the measure 
resulted in a negative AMS reflecting a tax on the commodity.  The measure was, in fact, a 
price ceiling on flour which was applied to th e processors for which the government made 
direct payments.  The objective was food aid fo r consumers; however, prices to agricultural 
producers were not directly affected by the pr ogram.  Hence, the entry in Tables DS:4 and 
DS:5 now exclude the program and Total Curre nt AMS is zero for each of the three years 
(1996-98).  The total volume of flour affected  (1,000,000 kg) is multiplied by the difference 
between the reference price and the administered  price (34.00 leke/kg - 29.60 leke/kg).  The 
value of 4,400,000 leke is included under ite m (d) "domestic food aid" in Supporting Table 
DS:1 listing the green box measures. 
 
 
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