G/AG/N/AUS/127  
 
18 September  2019 
(19-6002) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  16 September  2019, 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  2018 . 
 
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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 at tached 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 butter 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  2018 
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 disaggregation (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         
Bovine meat  0201: 300,607 tonnes ; 
0202: 876,143 tonnes . CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  1,176,787 Tonne s (1) 
Cotton  5201: 898,083 tonnes  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  898,245 Tonne s (2) 
Sheepmeat   CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  471,448 Tonne s (3) 
Sugar   CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  3,515,097 Tonne s (4) 
Wheat and wheat flour  1001: 12,352,315 tonnes ; 
1101: 22,548 tonnes . CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  12,374,863 Tonne s (5) 
 
III. Additional products with a share 
exceeding 5% of total world exports 
(Optional)         
Butter and butter oil * CY 2017 ( 01-01-2017 - 31-12-2017): Total 
exports : 16,065 tonnes . CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  16,296 Tonne s (6) 
Cheese * CY 2017 ( 01-01-2017 - 31-12-2017): Total 
exports: 171,294 tonnes . CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  172,011 Tonne s (7) 
Skim milk powder * CY 2017 ( 01-01-2017 - 31-12-2017): Total 
exports: 157,266 tonnes . CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  155,034 Tonne s (8)  
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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 disaggregation (Optional)  Type  From  To    
1 2 3  
Other milk products * CY 2017 ( 01-01-2017 - 31-12-2017): Total 
exports: 344,266 tonnes . 
− 0401: 202,022 tonnes;  
− 040221: 49,994 tonnes;  
− 0404: 33,451 tonnes.  
 
CY 2018 ( 01-01-2018 - 31-12-2018):  
− 0401: 214,063 tonnes;  
− 040221: 52,414 tonnes;  
− 0404: 39,554 tonnes . CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  361,339 Tonne s (9) 
Live animals  0102: 1,150,525 heads;  
0104: 1,237,888 heads . CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  3,468,764 Heads  (10) 
Wine 2204: 856,527,058 litres  CY 01-01-18 31-12-18  859,645,934 Litre s (11) 
Australian Bureau of Statistics.  
*  Australia has moved to reporting on a Calendar Year basis with respect to export subsidy notification requirements. In the 20 17 reporting period, Australia reported total 
exports of these products during FY2017 -18 (1/07/2016 -30/06/2017). This notification includes both CY2017 and CY2018 export data for these products to cover the 
six-month  period not reported by Australia in its ES:2 for reporting period 2017 (G/AG/N/AUS/121 and G/AG/N/AUS/121/CORR.1).  
(1) Bovine meat includes exports under 0201, 0202 and 021020 of the Harmonized System.  
(2) Cotton includes exports under 5201 to 5203 of the Harmonized System.  
(3) Sheep meat includes exports under 0204 (excluding 020450 Goat meat) of the Harmonized System.  
(4) Sugar includes exports under 1701 of the Har monized System.  
(5) Wheat and wheat flour includes exports under 1001 and 1101 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 are  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 (199 2), Economic Research Service in cooperation with the 
Agricultural Marketing Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, US Depar tment of Agriculture, Agricultural Handbook 
No 697.  
(10) Live animals include s 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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