G/AG/N/AUS/140  
 
22 September  2021 
(21-7078) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  21 September  2021, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Australia . The notification concerns total exports ( Table ES:2 ) in the context of export 
subsidy commitments for the  Calendar Year 2020 . 
 
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Australia eliminated its export subsidy entitlements in 2017 (refer to the modification to Section  II, 
Part IV of Schedule I of Australia certified via WT/LeT/1262 effective 22 May 2017).  
 
Total exports for the following commodities are provided in the attached Table ES:2:  
 
Products for which Australia is designated a "significant exporter"as per G/AG/2/Add.1 - wheat and 
wheat flour, sugar, bovine meat, sheep meat and cotton; and as per G/AG/W/123 - butter and butt er 
oil, skim milk powder, cheese, other milk products, live animals and wine.   
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- 2 - Table ES:2  
EXPORT SUBSIDIES: AUSTRALIA  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR  2020 
Export Subsidies : Notification of Total Exports  
Description of products  Reporting Year  Quantity of total exports  
(for products from Part IV 
Section II of the Schedule)  Quantity of total exports  
(for products from the 
list of Significant 
Exporters)  Note  
 Product disaggreg ation (Optional)  Type  From  To    
1 2 3  
I. Products from the Schedule         
 
II. Products from the list of significant 
exporters G/AG/2/Add.1         
Wheat and wheat flour  1001: 10,398,981 tonnes  
1101: 18,113 tonnes  CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  10,417,094 tonne  (1) 
Sugar  1701: 3,347,948 tonnes  CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  3,347,948 tonne  (2) 
Bovine meat  0201: 299,329 tonnes  
0202: 804,206 tonnes  
0210: 13 tonnes  CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  1,103,547 tonne  (3) 
Sheepmeat   CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  433,333 tonne  (4) 
Cotton   CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  172,604 tonne  (5) 
 
III. Additional products with a share 
exceeding 5% of total world exports 
(Optional)         
Butter and butter oil   CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  15,807 tonne  (6) 
Cheese   CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  153,105 tonne  (7) 
Skim milk powder   CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  128,552 tonne  (8) 
Other milk products  0401: 254,110 tonnes  
040221: 33,734 tonnes  
0404: 34,788 tonnes  CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  395,290 tonne  (9) 
Live animals  0102: 1,108,854 head s  
0104: 849,942 head s CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  2,897,586 heads (10)  
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- 3 - Description of products  Reporting Year  Quantity of total exports  
(for products from Part IV 
Section II of the Schedule)  Quantity of total exports  
(for products from the 
list of Significant 
Exporters)  Note  
 Product disaggreg ation (Optional)  Type  From  To    
1 2 3  
Wine 2204: 761,723,785 litres  
2205: 1,072,613 litres  CY 01-01-20 31-12-20  762,796,398 litre (11) 
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.  
 
(1) Wheat and wheat flour includes exports under 1001 and 1101 of the Harmonized System.  
(2) Sugar includes exports under 1701 of the Harmonized System.  
(3) Bovine meat includes exports under 0201, 0202 and 021020 of the Harmonized System.  
(4) Sheep meat includes exports under 0204 (excluding 020450 Goat  meat) of the Harmonized System.  
(5) Cotton includes exports under 5201 to 5203 of the Harmonized System.  
(6) Butter and butter oil includes exports under 0405 of the Harmonized System.  
(7) Cheese includes exports under 0406 of the Harmonized System.  
(8) Skim milk powder includes exports under 040210 of the Harmonized System.  
(9) Other milk products includes exports under 0401, 0402 (excluding 040210), 0403, 0404, 170211, 170219, 350110 and 350190 of th e Harmonized System. Milk product 
exports under 0401 ar e recorded in litres, but have been converted here into tonnes using a ratio of 1.03 kilograms/litre. This ratio is based on the ratio set out in Table  19, 
p. 28, Weights, Measures, and Conversion Factors for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products (19 92), Economic Research Service in cooperation with the Agricultural 
Marketing Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, US Department of Agri culture, Agricultural Handbook No 697.  
(10) Live animals includ es exports under 0101 to 0106 of the Harmonized System. Measured as number of animals, not tonnes.  
(11) Wine includes exports under 2204 and 2205 of the Harmonized System.  
 
 
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