G/AG/N/ARG/51   
6 July 2022  
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Committee on Agriculture  Original: Spanish  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following communication, dated 29 June 2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Argentina . The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table  DS:1 
and the relevant Supporting Tables) for the agricultural year 2019/2020 . 
 
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- 2 - Table DS :1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: ARGENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2020  
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level  Currency  Current total AMS  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from attached Supporting Tables)  
1  2  3  
75,021,292  1992 pesos  74,181,773  
  
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- 3 - Supporting Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: ARGENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2020  
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box"  
Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in 
Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
1992 pesos  Data source  Note 
1 2 3 4  
2. General services      
2 (a) Research  Special Fund for Tobacco: Development of new technologies for 
production in Salta.  14,012  SSA (MAGyP)   
INTA: Basic research and technological innovation programme.  24,021,534  INTA ( MAGyP)   
Subtotal  24,035,546    
2 (b) Pest and disease control  National Agriculture and Food Quality Service: Plant protection.  10,389,725  SENASA   
National Agriculture and Food Quality Service: Agriculture and food 
safety and quality (formerly agriculture and food control). Agro -
chemicals, veterinary products and food (formerly approval of agro -
chemicals and pharmacological products). Laboratory serv ices. 6,433,241  SENASA   
National Agriculture and Food Quality Service: Animal health.  969,991  SENASA   
Subtotal  17,792,956    
2 (c) Training services  Special Fund for Tobacco: Training of technical specialists and 
producers.  4,645,784  SSA ( MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  4,645,784    
2 (d) Extension and advisory services  Special Fund for Tobacco: Advice and technical assistance for 
producers for activities related to diversification, reconversion and 
training.  375,912  SSA (MINAGRO)   
INTA: Applied Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer (IAITT) 
programme. This includes the Federal Support Programme for 
Sustainable Rural Development, PROFEDER (with the following 
strategies: Rural Change, ProFam (family producer groups), 
Smallholdings (Mi nifundio), ProHuerta (food security), Integrated 
Projects and Local Development Projects), which is geared towards 
the management of innovation processes in relation to research, 
education and technology transfer.  113,495,477  INTA (MINAGRO)   
Programme to promote local employment, integration and 
procurement: Advice  and technical support to facilitate the local 
production of food and the creation of jobs for producers engaged in 
family farming.  326,817  Secretariat of Family, Rural and 
Indigenous Farming (MAGyP)   
Subtotal  114,198,207     
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- 4 - Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in 
Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
1992 pesos  Data source  Note 
1 2 3 4  
2 (e) Inspection services  Special Fund for Tobacco: Administration and monitoring in 
Catamarca, Corrientes, Misiones, Salta and Tucumán.  5,069,435  SSA (MAGyP)   
INV: Control of the genuineness of wine products and alcohols. This 
programme ensures technical control of the wine industry and of 
production of and trade in wine products, as well as monitoring of the 
production, circulation, fractionation and marketing of ethyl and 
methyl alcohol, with a view to protecting the community in relation to 
the genuineness of wine  products and alcoholic beverages and their 
fitness for consumption.  10,533,791  INV (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  15,603,225    
2 (g) Infrastructural services  Special Fund for Tobacco: Civil engineering work and improvement of 
the effluent treatment system in the provinces of Jujuy, Misiones, 
Salta and Tucumán.  1,783,270  SSA (MINAGRO)   
MAGyP: Rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems in the 
provinces of Catamarca, Córdoba, Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, 
Jujuy, Mendoza, Neuquén, Salta and San Juan. Min or building projects 
and water - and soil -quality studies.  19,263,417  PROSAP (MAGyP)   
Subtotal  21,046,686    
 Subtotal General Services  197,322,404    
6. Decoupled income support  Special Fund for Tobacco: Assistance to the families of producers to 
finance medical, health, biochemical and dentistry benefits ( this 
measure benefits over 110,000 people).  18,392,107  SSA (MINAGRO)   
Special Fund for Tobacco: Support for trade association activities.  31,155,655  SSA (MINAGRO)   
Special Fund for Tobacco: Social welfare for producers in the 
provinces of Catamarca, Corrientes, Salta and Tucumán.  453,661  SSA (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  50,001,424    
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Agricultural Emergency Programme. Law No. 26.509: Support for 
producers who suffered damage from flooding, rainfall, hail and other 
adverse climatic phenomena in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Chaco, 
Chubut, Córdoba, Corrientes, Formosa, Neuqu én, Rio Negro, San 
Juan, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Santa C ruz and Tierra del Fuego.  8,083,834  MAGyP   
Special Fund for Tobacco: Support for producers who suffered damage 
from flooding and rainfall in the province of Jujuy.  248,263  SSA (MAGyP)   
Programme for direct and critical assistance for family, rural and 
indigenous farming: Aid for producers engaged in family, rural and 
indigenous farming, whose production is at risk from the effects of 
climatic events (bad weather), social crises or extreme occurrences 
(geographical isolation).  628,238  Secretariat of Family, Rural and 
Indigenous Farming (MAGyP)   
Subtotal  8,960,336     
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- 5 - Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in 
Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
1992 pesos  Data source  Note 
1 2 3 4  
11. Structural adjustment assistance provided through 
investment aids  MAGyP: Technical and financial assistance with a view to mitigating 
the social vulnerability of low -income rural inhabitants and aboriginal 
communities in the provinces of Chaco, Misiones, Jujuy, Salta, 
Tucumán, Chubut, Córdoba, Mendoza, Entre Ríos, Santiago del Estero, 
San Juan, Neuquén, Catamarca, La  Rioja and Buenos Aires, as well as 
at the national level. S upport for project management, training 
activities with a view to improving and diversifying existing farms, and 
facilitation of technological progress in small production units.  11,129,307  PRODAF (MAGyP)/PROICSA 
(MAGyP)/PRODERI (MAGyP)/PISEAR 
(MAGyP)/PROC ANOR 
(MAGyP)/PRODECCA(MAGyP)/GIRSAR 
(MAGyP)   
Special Fund for Tobacco: Assistance for the financial or physical 
restructuring of production activities to remedy objectively 
demonstrated structural disadvantages. The construction of centres, 
provision of supplementary equipment, production and storage; land 
improvement; assistance for the modernization of farms.  87,819,412  SSA (MAGyP)   
Subtotal  98,948,719    
14. Other direct payments to producers  Special Fund for Tobacco: Support for the purchase of climate risk 
insurance and mandatory life insurance for rural workers.  3,674,685  SSA (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  3,674,685    
Total Green Box  358,907,568    
General notes:  
SENASA: National Agriculture and Food Health and Quality Service  
MAGyP: Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries  
SSA: Under -Secretariat for Agriculture  
INTA: National Institute of Agricultural Technology  
INV: National Institute of Vitiviniculture   
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- 6 - Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: ARGENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2020  
Calculation of the Current To tal Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products (including 
non-product -specific AMS)  
 
 Product -specific 
AMS (from 
Supporting Tables 
DS:5 to DS:7)  
 
1992 pesos  Product -specific 
equivalent 
measurements of 
support (from 
Supporting Table 
DS:8)  
 
1992 pesos  Total  
(2 + 3)  
 
1992 pesos  Value of production  
 
1992 pesos  Support as a 
% of value of 
production  
 Current total AMS  
 
1992 pesos  Note  
 
1 2 3    4  
Tobacco   74,181,773  74,181,773    74,181,773   
Swine meat  1,814   1,814  748,271,034  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Bovine meat  211,335   211,335  8,925,833,303  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Milk 44,576   44,576  1,208,190,175  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Wheat  171  171 2,951,401,823  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Pears  8,724   8,724  121,583,625  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Apples  8,724   8,724  124,292,050  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Wines  162  162 2,104,916,288  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Citrus fruit  605  605 372,353,778  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Maté  6,283   6,283  275,581,047  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Olives  2,905   2,905  36,507,574  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Soya beans  88,465,625   88,465,625  10,330,235,829  1% 0 (de minimis )  
Cotton  2,253,151   2,253,151  252,658,803  1% 0 (de minimis )  
Sheep meat  3,008,764   3,008,764  587,782,754  1% 0 (de minimis )  
Goat meat  199,620   199,620  67,553,617  0% 0 (de minimis )  
Total non -product -specific AMS (from Supporting Table DS:9)  237,843  49,784,766,149  0% 0 (de minimis )  
TOTAL  74,181,773   
  
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- 7 - Supporting Table DS:7  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: ARGENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2020  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Other Product -Specific Support and Total Product -Specific AMS  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure type(s)  Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
1992 pesos  Other 
product -
specific 
support (with 
calculation 
details)  
 
1992 pesos  Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
product -
specific 
support  
(4+5 -6) 
 
1992 pesos  Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:5)  
 
1992 pesos  Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:6)  
 
1992 pesos  Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
1992 pesos  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Swine meat  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  1,814    1,814     SSGA 
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total Swine 
Meat         1,814    1,814    
Bovine meat  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  211,335    211,335     SSGA 
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total 
Bovine 
Meat         211,335    211,335    
Milk AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  44,576    44,576     SSGA  
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total Milk         44,576    44,576    
Wheat  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  171   171    SSGA 
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total 
Wheat         171   171   
Pears  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  8,724    8,724     SSGA 
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total Pears         8,724    8,724     
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- 8 - Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure type(s)  Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
1992 pesos  Other 
product -
specific 
support (with 
calculation 
details)  
 
1992 pesos  Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
product -
specific 
support  
(4+5 -6) 
 
1992 pesos  Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:5)  
 
1992 pesos  Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:6)  
 
1992 pesos  Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
1992 pesos  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Apples  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  8,724    8,724     SSGA 
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total 
Apples         8,724    8,724    
Wines  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  162   162    SSGA  
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total Wines         162   162   
Citrus fruit  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  605   605    SAGPyA 
(Finance 
Directorate)   
Total Citrus 
Fruit         605   605   
Maté  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  6,283    6,283     SAGPyA 
(Finance 
Directorate)   
Total Maté         6,283    6,283    
Olives  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Interest -rate subsidy 
programme for loans 
to small -scale 
agricultural producers  2,905    2,905     SSGA 
(Budget 
Directorate)   
Total Olives         2905    2,905    
Soya beans  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Compensation and 
stimulus programme  88,465,625    88,465,625     MAGyP  
(Under -
Secretariat 
for 
Agriculture)   
Total Soya 
Beans         88,465,625    88,465,625    
Cotton  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Sustainable 
development and 
cotton -production 
promotion plan  2,253,151    2,253,151     MAGyP  
(Under -
Secretariat 
for 
Agriculture)   
Total 
Cotton         2,253,151    2,253,151     
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- 9 - Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure type(s)  Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
1992 pesos  Other 
product -
specific 
support (with 
calculation 
details)  
 
1992 pesos  Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
product -
specific 
support  
(4+5 -6) 
 
1992 pesos  Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:5)  
 
1992 pesos  Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table  DS:6)  
 
1992 pesos  Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
1992 pesos  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Sheep meat  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Sheep farming 
recovery scheme  3,008,764    3,008,764     MAGyP 
(Under -
Secretariat 
for 
Livestock)   
Total Sheep 
Meat         3,008,764    3,008,764    
Goat meat  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Law on the recovery, 
promotion and 
development of goat 
farming  199,620    199,620     MAGyP 
(Under -
Secretariat 
for 
Livestock)   
Total Goat 
Meat         199,620    199,620    
  
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- 10 - Supporting Table DS:8  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: ARGENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2020  
Product -Specific Equivalent Measurements of Support  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure 
type(s)  Applied 
administered 
price  
 
1992 pesos  Eligible 
production  Market 
price 
support 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
1992 
pesos  Equivalent 
measurement 
of support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
 
1992 pesos  Non-exempt 
direct 
payments  
 
1992 pesos  Other 
product -
specific 
support  
 
1992 pesos  Associated 
fees/lev ies 
 
1992 pesos  Total monetary 
value of 
equivalent 
commitment 
(7+8+9 -10) 
 
1992 pesos  Data 
source  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12  
Tobacco  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 Payment 
per unit  1/kg 112,856,000 
kg 74,181,773  74,181,773     74,181,773  Secretariat 
of 
Agriculture, 
Livestock 
and 
Fisheries/ 
Annual 
reports of 
the 
Conversion 
programme 
for 
tobacco -
growing 
areas 
(PRAT)   
Total 
Tobacco             74,181,773    
 
  
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- 11 - Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: ARGENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2019 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2020  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure type(s)  Reporting period  Non-product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
1992 pesos  Other non-product -
specific support 
(with calculation 
details)  
  
1992 pesos  Associated 
fees/levies  
 
1992 pesos  Non-product -
specific support 
(3+4 -5) 
 
1992 pesos  Data 
sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
National Agro -Industry Trust Fund  AY 01-12-19 30-11-20 237,843    237,843  Coordination 
Unit 
(MAGyP)   
TOTAL  237,843   
General note:  
The National Agro -Industry Trust Fund (FONDAGRO) (established by Law No.  27.341 on the General Budget of the National Public Administration for the fiscal year 2017), was 
created as an administration and financial trust with the aim of promoting, supporting and developing the agro -industrial sector, plant and animal health and food quality, territorial 
developmen t, agricultural and fisheries research, and regional production.  
 
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