G/AG/N/AUS/153  
 
30 August 2023  
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Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 29 August 2023, 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 2022 . 
 
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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/Le t/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 me at 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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EXPORT SUBSIDIES: AUSTRALIA  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2022  
Export Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports  
Product(s) Description  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         
Wheat and wheat flour  1001: 28,780,347 tonnes  
1101: 17,561 tonnes  CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  28,797,908 tonnes  (1) 
Sugar  1701: 3,043,777 tonnes  CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  3,043,777 tonnes  (2) 
Bovine meat  0201: 216,774 tonnes  
0202: 714,022 tonnes  CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  930,817 tonnes  (3) 
Sheepmeat   CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  458,467 tonnes  (4) 
Cotton   CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  1,116,640 tonnes  (5) 
 
III. Additional products with a share 
exceeding 5% of total world exports 
(Optional)         
Butter and butter oil   CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  17,409 tonnes  (6) 
Cheese   CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  145,677 tonnes  (7) 
Skim milk powder   CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  154,241 tonnes  (8) 
Other milk products  0401: 335,737 tonnes  
040221: 28,205 tonnes  
0404: 26,363 tonnes  CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  483,494 tonnes  (9) 
Live animals  0102: 591,868 head s 
0104: 529,803 head s CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  1,639,820 head s (10) 
Wine 2204: 643,225,453 litres  CY 01-01-22 31-12-22  643,779,384 litres (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.   
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- 3 - (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 powde r 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 (1992), 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 includes  all exports under 0101 to 0106 of the Harmonized System of which 0102 and 0104 account for the largest share. Measured as num ber of animals, 
not tonnes. Figures for 0102 do not include exports under 01022114 and 01023100 (Live pure -bred breeding beef and buffalo) due to confidentiality restrictions.  
(11) Wine includes exports under 2204 and 2205 of the Harmonized System.  
 
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