WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/USA/22
23 February 1999
(99-0689)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification concerning export subsidy commitments for fiscal year 1997
(Tables ES:1 and ES:2 ) was received from the delegation of the United States  on 12 February 1999.G/AG/N/USA/22
Page 2Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  United States of America
REPORTING PERIOD:  1997
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
(from Section II of Part IV) (from Section II of Part
IV)(from Section II of Part IV)
12 3 4 5 6 7
Wheat 0 1,075,187 (3) 604,825,385 17,951,803
Coarse grains 1,205,000 25,000 116,168 (4) 59,088,374 1,768,021
Rice 0 111,252 10,371,080 178,417
Vegetable oils 0 157,262 37,408,871 409,043
Butter and butter oil 8,852,246 15,648 (5) 0 39,074,563 34,232Skim milk powder 88,798,424 96,303 (6) 0 105,656,917 92,217
Cheese 3,905,189 3,510 0 4,658,161 3,510
Other milk products 8,603,833 7,487 3,303 8,632,862 7,487Bovine meat 0 0 29,240,900 19,927
Pigmeat 0 0 636,852 448
Poultry meat 862,500 0 (1) 0 18,648,372 31,715Live dairy cattle (head) 0 0 15,223,068 12,490
Eggs (dozen) 0 0 5,194,545 20,924,929
(1) Quantity commitments are for the period:  1 July 1997 through 30 June 1998 while budgetary outlay commitments are implemente d on fiscal year basis beginning on 1 October each
year.  This difference explains why there are outlays but no corresponding export quantities for poultry.  The poultry EEP awar ds were made after 30 June 1998 and the export
quantities will appear on the 1998 ES:1 notification.
(2) Members are to provide data on 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 1997 reporting p eriod was 4,086 tonnes of previously unused quantities.G/AG/N/USA/22
Page 3Supporting Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  United States of America
REPORTING PERIOD:  1997
Export Subsidies:  Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments
Description of products Direct
export
subsidies (1)
'000 US$Sales of
stocksProducer
financed
subsidiesCost reduction
measuresInternal
transport
subsidiesTotal product
specific
export
subsidies (2)
'000 US$Quantity of
subsidised
exports
tonnesData source
12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Wheat 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
Coarse grains 1,205 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1,205 25,000 USDA/FAS
Rice 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FASVegetable oils 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FASButter and butter oil 8,852 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8,852 15,648 USDA/FAS
Skim milk powder 88,798 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 88,798 96,303 USDA/FAS
Cheese 3,905 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3,905 3,510 USDA/FASOther milk products 8,604 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8,604 7,487 USDA/FASBovine 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/FAS
Poultry meat 863 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 863 0 USDA/FASLive dairy cattle (head) 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FASEggs (dozen) 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 USDA/FAS
(1) Quantity commitments are reported for the July-June period.
(2) Budgetary outlays are on a fiscal year basis beginning 1 October.
USDA/FAS:  The United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service.G/AG/N/USA/22
Page 4Table ES:2
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  United States of America
REPORTING PERIOD:  1997
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports
Description of products Marketing year 1 July 1997 to 30 June 1998 Unit Quantity of total exports
12 3
Bovine meat tonnes 698,380
Live dairy cattle head 26,694
Pigmeat tonnes 194,165
Poultry meat tonnes 2,086,454
Eggs dozen 101,276,556
Cheese tonnes 28,552
Coarse grains tonnes 7,436,463
Rice (1) tonnes 1,953,553
Skim milk powder (2) tonnes 115,079
Other milk products tonnes 6,532
Wheat tonnes 27,382,902
Oilseeds tonnes 25,613,198
Butter and butter oil tonnes 15,727
Oilcakes tonnes 14,628,200
Vegetables tonnes 2,529,599
Vegetable oils tonnes 2,004,832
Fruit tonnes 2,745,183
Tobacco tonnes 244,891
Cotton bales 7,131,940
(1) Data for rice is provided separately because rice is not incl uded in coarse grains, and does not receive any export subsidy.
(2) Exports for this reporting period were shipped under the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP).  The export data represent a ctual shipments during the period
1 July 1997 thro ugh 30 June 1998.
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