G/AG/W/178/Corr.1  
 
6 June 2018 
(18-3458) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Agriculture    
 
POINTS RAISED BY MEM BERS UNDER THE REVIE W PROCESS  
COMPILATION OF QUEST IONS FOR THE MEETING  ON 11-12 JUNE 2018  
Corrigendum1 
Question AG-IMS ID 87024  from the United States of America to India should be removed from 
Section  4 OVERDUE NOTIFICATIONS and be included in a new section - SECTION 5 COUNTER 
NOTIFICATIONS. This new section should read as follows:  
 
5  COUNTER NOTIFICATION S 
5.1  India  
AG-IMS ID 87024: Qu estio n by United States of America  
Please provide to Members the name, citation, and publication location, for all Indian legal 
instruments related to market price support for wheat and rice for any period from 2010 to the 
present.  Please include both tho se issued by the national gov ernment and those issued by 
sub-national units of government.  
 
Inclusion of State Level Bonuses in Applied Administered Price  
 
a. State -level bonuses for rice and wheat appear to have been provided by certain Indian 
states, includ ing bonuses provided by Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, 
Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh, for the years covere d by this counter 
notification.  
i. Please indicate whether any bonuses or incentives were provided for rice or wheat by 
any other sub -federal government during any year from 2010 to the present.  
ii. Noting India 's previous responses to the Committee, please explain and clarify 
India's rationale for not notifying these bonuses.  
Eligible Production  
 
b. In both its first notification (G /AG/N/IND/1) and in its domestic support commitments 
(G/AG/AGST/IND), India identified as eligible production all rice and wheat produced in 
India.  India, however, no longer does so, and instead notifies only quantities  actually 
purchased by the GoI.  
i. Please explain the specific basis for switching from total production to procured 
quantity.  
ii. Please provide to Members the name and location of all measures, laws or 
regulations regarding market price support measures during the issuance of 
G/AG/AGST/IND, G/AG/N /IND/1, G/ AG/N/IND/11, and G/AG/N/IND/12.  
                                                
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  Rice Conversions  
 
c. Paragraph 7 of Annex 3 states:  "The AMS shall be calculated as close as practicable to 
the point of first sale of the basic agricultural product concerned.  "Please explain India 's 
rational for notifying support on a milled rice basis rather than a paddy rice basis  
Currency  
 
d. In response to various questions asked by Members, including AG -IMS ID 76018, India 
has repeatedly stated the basis for notifying in U.S. dollars is that it provides a 
compar able estimate for all of its notifications sin ce G/AG/N/IND/1 for MY 1995/96.  
Noting India 's previous incomplete responses to the Committee, please specifically 
explain the basis for switching from Indian rupees to U.S. dollars in G/AG/N/IND/1 given 
that M embers ' notified support levels are calculated for the primary purpose of 
comparison against their commitments, which in India 's case are calculated in Indian 
rupees as referenced in its Agricultural Supporting Tables (G/AG/AGST/IND).  
Value of Production  
 
e. Could India please provide a detailed explanation of the calculation methodology for the 
VoP figures for wheat and rice provided in India 's response to AG -IMS ID 75061? In 
particular, please explain why the VoPs figures provided  by India in its response to  
AG-IMS ID 75061 differ from the figures put out by India 's National Account of Statistics.  
f. Will India provide value of production data in future domestic support notifications to 
ensure transparency and to be consistent with other Member (both developed and 
developing) notifications that include this data as a best practice to easily determine 
whether support is within the de minimis  limit. 
 
 
 
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