G/AG/N/CHL/56  
4 June 2019 
(19-3838) Page: 1/7 
Committee on Agriculture  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated  26 November  2018, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Chile . The notification concerns domestic support commitments  (Table  DS:1 and the 
relevant supporting tables) for  the calendar year  2017. 
 
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The existing domestic agricultural support measures applied by Chile are those listed in the attached 
supporting tables . 
 
 
 
   
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Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2017  
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 
  0 
 
    
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Supporting Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2017  
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment - "Green Box"  
Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
CLP million  Data source  Note 
1 2 3 4  
2. General services      
2 (a) Research  Agricultural research : 
Partial financing for innovation projects ; technological applications ; innovation support 
information . 10,797,378  Foundation for 
Agricultural Innovation 
(FIA)  
Research and development centres : 
Generation, adaptation and dissemination of scientific and technological knowledge and 
products that contribute to the sustainable (social, economic and environmental) 
development of the competitiveness of the various agricultural sector actors . 16,875,557  Agricultural Research 
Institute  (INIA)   
Subtotal  27,672,935    
2 (c) Training services  Technological development service for small -holding agriculture : 
Technical Advisory Service (SAT): designed to build up and strengthen production and 
business capacity by means of advice on, inter alia , production, use of technologies, and 
management . 51,629,286  Agricultural 
Development Institute 
(INDAP)   
Support for organizations (PRODES : Fund for Organizational Development Projects ): 
support for organizational development and entrepreneurial and organizational capacity 
building (management, training, leadership and business development) .    
Business management centre for small producers (CEGE ): provision of direct technical and 
economic (accounting, fiscal, legal and strategic) advisory services .    
Development promotion services (PRODESAL and PRODECOP ): support for the contracting 
of technical advisory services to improve productivity and the environmental situation and 
to raise partnership levels .    
Training and education for women in rural areas : 
about 3,000 women are attending technical training, personal training, management 
training and organizational development workshops . 1,692,490  INDAP and the 
Foundation for the 
Advancement and 
Development of 
Women (PRODEMU)   
Quality promotion : 
support for enterprises in achieving better quality and greater productivity through 
specialized quality management consulting services . 521,370  Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO)   
Subtotal  53,843,146      
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Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in Annex 2  Monetary value  
 
CLP million  Data source  Note 
1 2 3 4  
2 (d) Extension and advisory services  Technical Assistance Funds (FAT) : advice for small and medium -sized agricultural 
producers on contracting consultancy services, thus facilitating access to external and 
specialized technical assistance services ; and 1,512,422  Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/  
CORFO   
Irrigation and Energy Efficiency Pre -Investment Programmes (PIR and PIEE) : 
support for the contracting of advisory services to design irrigation projects .    
Subtotal  1,512,422    
2 (e) Inspection services  Agricultural protection : protection, maintenance and improvement of plant and animal 
health and surveillance of the health status of plants and animals and the sanitary condition 
of plant and animal products, by -products and derivatives which may cause or carry 
diseases or pests that could im pair this resource . 72,561,906  Agriculture and 
Livestock Service  
(SAG)   
Subtotal  72,561,906    
2 (f) Marketing and promotion services  Promotion Programme (PROFO) : scheme for the payment of incentives to encourage 
business modernization through the association of similar or complementary enterprises 
established in the same area . 2,989,185  Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/CORFO   
Supplier Development Programme  (PDP) : support for the assessment, preparation and 
development of business projects with a view  to improving supplier quality and productivity.  2,539,595  Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/CORFO   
Subtotal  5,528,780    
2 (g) Infrastructural services  Law No. 18.450 : promotion of private investment in irrigation and drainage works, as a 
means of encouraging the construction of small -scale hydraulic works for agricultural use . 36,838,465  National Irrigation 
Commission   
Irrigation for small -scale farming : support for the diversification and greater 
productivity of small -scale farming by introducin g, improving and expanding irrigation . 3,658,508  INDAP   
Subtotal  40,496,973    
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Agricultural Emergency Fund : assistance for the agricultural sector to offset the adverse 
effects of climatic events . 5,506,713 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture   
Subtotal  5,506,713    
14. Other direct payments to producers  Agricultural insurance : instrument that allows the agricultural sector to protect itself 
against economic losses resulting from natural disasters . It provides for support towards or 
the partial financing of the insurance premium . 5,614,578  Agricultural Insurance 
Committee (COMSA)   
Subtotal  5,614,578    
Total Green Box  212,737,453    
Prepared by the Office for Agricultural Research and Policy (ODEPA) of the Ministry of Agriculture . 
    
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Supporting Table DS:2  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2017  
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment - Special and Differential Treatment - "Development Programmes"  
Measure type  Name and description of  measure  
with reference to criteria in  
Article 6.2  Monetary value  
 
CLP million  Data source  Note 
1 2 3 4  
(a) Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture  Investment incentive  9,952,021  INDAP   
Subtotal  9,952,021    
Total  Development Programmes  9,952,021    
Prepared by ODEPA of the Ministry of Agriculture . 
    
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Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2017  
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products (including 
non-product -specific AMS)  
 
 Product -specific 
AMS 
(from Supporting 
Tables  
DS:5 to DS:7)  
 
 Product -specific 
measurements  
of support (from 
Supporting Table 
DS:8)  
 
 Total  
(2 + 3)  
 
 
 
 
CLP million  Production value  
 
 
 
 
 
CLP million  Support as a 
% of value of 
production  
 Current total AMS  
 
 
 
 
 
CLP million  Note 
 
1 2 3    4  
Non-product -specific AMS (from Supporting Table DS:9 below)  52,694  10,444,000  0.50% 0 (de minimis )  
TOTAL  0  
* Provisional.  
Source : Estimated by ODEPA on the basis of data provided by the Central Bank of Chile . 
 
 
    
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Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2017  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure type(s)  Reporting period  Non-product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
CLP million  Other non-product -
specific support 
(include calculation 
details)  
 
CLP million  Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
 
CLP million  Total non -
product -specific 
support (3+4 -5) 
 
 
CLP million  Data 
source  Note 
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
Land reclamation  CY 01-01-17 31-12-17 29,200    29,200    
Irrigation Law No. 18.450  CY 01-01-17 31-12-17 23,494    23,494    
TOTAL  52,694   
 
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