G/AG/N/AUS/92  
 
15 August 2014  
(14-4749)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
The following submission, dated 14 August 2014, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Australia . The notification concerns export subsidy commitments ( Tables ES:1 to 
ES:3) for financial year 2012/13 , and for calendar year 2013 . 
 
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Export subsidies  
1. Australia notifies that it provided no agricultural export subsidies including for scheduled 
products (Table ES:1): 
• butter and butter oil, cheese, skim milk powder and other milk products for the 
financial year 2012/13, and 
• pears for the calendar year 2013. 
 Table ES:2 
 
2. 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, sheepmeat and cotton (calendar year 
2013); 
• products for which Australia has export subsidy commitments — butter and butter oil, 
cheese, skim milk powder and other milk products (financial year 2012/13) and pears 
(calendar year 2013). 
 Food Aid 
 
3. Australia untied its food aid in 2005. Since then Australia has not provided physical food aid 
(Table ES:3). Australia instead provided food a ssistance in the form of cash contributions to 
international agencies. 
4. For further information on Australia's food aid contributions see Table NF:1 notifications.  
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EXPORT SUBSIDIES: AUSTRALIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2013 
Export Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports 
Description of products Calendar ye ar 2013 Quantity of total exports  
 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 
Wheat and wheat flour1 1 January - 31 December 18,035,407 
Sugar1 " 3,004,841 
Bovine meat1 " 1,131,600 
Sheepmeat1 " 398,335 
Cotton1 " 1,167,791 
Pears (and quinces)2 " 6,391 
 
                                               
1 Source: Australian Bu reau of Statistics. 
 Australia is a significant exporter of these products, and is no tifying total exports as required by G/AG/2/Add.1. Reported tra de data is based on the following: 
 Wheat and wheat flour  includes exports under 1001 and 1101 of the Harmonized System. 
 Sugar  includes exports under 1701 of the Harmonized System. 
 Bovine meat  includes exports under 0201 and 0202 of the Harmonized System. 
 Sheepmeat  includes exports under 0204 (excluding 020450 Goat meat) of the Harmonized System. 
 Cotton  includes exports under 5201 to 5203 of the Harmonized System. 
 
2 Australia has export subsidy commitments for pears, as a product specified in Section II of Part IV of its Schedule, and is no tifying total exports as requ ired by G/AG/2. Reported 
trade data is based on the following: 
 
 Pears (and quinces)  includes exports under 080830 (pears) and 080840 (quinces) of  the Harmonized System (080820 has been repealed).  
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EXPORT SUBSIDIES: AUSTRALIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR 2012/2013 
Export Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports 
Description of products Financial Year  2012/2013 Quantity of total exports  
 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 
Butter and butter oil3 1 July – 30 June 51,423 
Cheese3 " 174,148 
Skim milk powder3 " 146,965 
Other milk products3 " 300,907 
 
 
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3 Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics  
 
Australia has export subsidy commitments for dairy products, as specified in Section II of Part IV of its Schedule, and is noti fying total exports as requ ired by G/AG/2. Reported 
trade data is based on the following:  
 Butter and butter oil  includes exports under 0405 of the Harmonized System. 
 Cheese  includes exports under 0406 of the Harmonized System. 
 Skim milk powder  includes exports under 040210 of the Harmonized System. 
 Other milk products includes exports under 0401, 0402 (excluding 040210), 0403, 0404, 170211, 170219, 350110 and 350190 of the Harmonized System. M ilk 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 Serv ice in cooperation with the Agricultural 
Marketing Service, the Agricultural Research  Service, and the National Agricultural St atistics Service, US Department of Agricu lture, Agricultural Handbook No 697.