G/AG/N/AUS/146  
 
6 May  2022 
(22-3571) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  5 May  2022, 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 2021 . 
 
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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 butter oil, skim milk powder, cheese, other milk products, live 
animals and wine.  
 
  
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EXPORT SUBSIDIES: AUSTRALIA  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR  2021 
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         
Bovine meat  0201: 263,911 tonnes;  
0202: 704,020 tonnes.  CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  967,939 tonnes  (1) 
Cotton   CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  711,527 tonnes  (2) 
Sheepmeat   CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  436,196 tonnes  (3) 
Sugar  1701: 3,772,602 tonnes.  CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  3,772,602 tonnes  (4) 
Wheat and wheat flour  1001: 25,494,043 tonnes;  
1101: 56,032 tonnes.  CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  25,550,075 tonnes  (5) 
 
III. Additional products with a share 
exceeding 5% of total world exports 
(Optional)         
Butter and butter oil   CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  24,206 tonnes  (6) 
Cheese   CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  156,825 tonnes  (7) 
Skim milk powder   CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  156,173 tonnes  (8) 
Other milk products  0401: 356,683 tonnes;  
040221: 47,420 tonnes;  
0404: 32,084 tonnes.  CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  509,315 tonnes  (9) 
Live animals  0102: 787,582 heads;  
0104: 579,492 heads;  
0106: 1,216,914 heads.  CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  2,785,950 head s (10) 
Wine 2204: 631,474,861 litres;  
2205: 621,948 litres.  CY 01-01-21 31-12-21  632,096,809 litres (11) 
Source:  Australian  Bureau of Statistics.  
(1) Bovine meat includes exports under 0201, 0202 and 021020 of the Harmonized System.  
  
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- 3 - (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 Harmonized System. Due to commercial in confidence requirements, reporting on this w ill be notified in a corrigendum once the required period of 
confidentiality has passed.  
(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 Harmon ized 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 ton nes using a ratio of 1.03 kilograms/litre. This ratio is based on the ratio set out in Table 19, p. 28, Weights, Measures, an d Conversion 
Factors for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products (1992), Economic Research Service in cooperation with the Agri cultural Marketing Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and the 
National Agricultural Statistics Service, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Handbook No 697.  
(10) Live animals includes exports under 0101 to 0106 of the Harmonized System. Mea sured as number of animals, not tonnes.  
(11) Wine includes exports under 2204 and 2205 of the Harmonized System.  
 
 
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