G/AG/N/CHL/48  
7 December  2016 
(16-6683) Page: 1/15 
Committee on Agriculture  Original:  Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 2 5 November 2 016, 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  2014 and 2015. 
 
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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: CH ILE 
REPORTING PERIOD: 20 14 
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitm ent level for period in question  Currency  
(Ch$ million ) Current total AMS  
(Ch$ million ) 
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule ) (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule ) (from attached Supporting Tables ) 
1 3 4 
- - "de minimis" * 
* See Supporting T able DS:4 .   
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Supporting Table DS: 1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: 2014  
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment - "Green Box " 
Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria 
in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in 
year in question  
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
2.2 General services     
(a) Research  Agricultural research  
Partial financing for innovation projects;  
technological applications;  
innovation support information . 
 8,707,354 Foundation for 
Agricultural Inn ovation 
(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 t he various agricultural sector actors . 14,420,520 Agricultural Research 
Institute (INIA)  
    
(c) Training services  Technological development service for small -holding 
agriculture  
Technical Advisory Service (SAT ): designed to build up and 
strengthen produ ction and business capacity by means of advice 
on, inter alia , production, use of technologies, and management . 
 50,779,246 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 ). 
     
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Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria 
in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in 
year in question  
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
 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 
partner ship 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 . 
 1,355,313 Agricultural 
Development Institute 
(INDAP) an d 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 . 0 Vice-Ministry of 
Agricu lture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO)  
    
(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 an d specialized 
technical assistance services ; and 
 
Irrigation and Energy Efficiency Pre -Investment 
Programmes (PIR  and PIEE) : support for the contracting of 
advisory services to design irrigation projects . 
 2,333,258 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO)  
(e) Inspection services for sanitary, safety, 
etc. purposes  Agricultural protection : protection, maintenance and 
improvement of plant and animal health and surveillance of the 
health status of plants and animals and the sanit ary condition of 
plant and animal products, by-products and derivatives which may 
cause or carry diseases or pests that could impair this resource . 
 58,425,150 Agriculture and 
Livestock Service (SAG )   
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Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria 
in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in 
year in question  
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
(f) Marketing and promotion services  Promotion Programm e (PROFO) : scheme for the payment of 
incentives to encourage business modernization through the 
association of similar or complementary enterprises established in 
the same area . 
 1,482,356 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORF O) 
 Supplier Development Programme (PDP) : support for the 
assessment, preparation and development of business projects 
with a view to improving supplier quality and productivity.  2,114,851 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO) 
    
(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 . 
 16,451,076 National Irrigation 
Commis sion (CNR)  
 Irrigation for small -scale farming : support for the 
diversification and greater productivity of small -scale farming by 
introducing, improving and expanding irrigation . 
 4,721,433 Agricultural 
Development Institute 
(INDAP)  
2.5 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 . 
 4,335,722 Agricultural Insurance 
Committee (COMSA)  
2.8 Payments for relief from natural 
disasters  Agricultural Emergency Fund : assistance for the agricultural 
sector to offset the adverse effects of climatic events . 283,135 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture  
Prepared by t he 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: 2014  
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment - Special and Differential Treatment - "Development P rogrammes " 
Measure type  Name and description of measure  
with reference to criteria in  
Article 6.2  Monetary value of measure in 
year in question  
 
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
Investment subsidies generally available 
to agriculture   Investment incent ive 9,492,602 Agricultural Development Institute 
(INDAP)  
Prepared by the Office for Agricultural Research and Policy (ODEPA) of the Ministry of Agriculture .   
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Supporting Table DS: 4 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: 2014  
Calculation of the Current T otal Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products 
(including non -product -specific AMS ) Product -specific AMS  
(from Supporting Tables  
DS:5 to DS:7 below ) 
(Ch$ million ) Product -specific measurements  
of support (from Supporting Table DS:8 
below) Current total AMS 
(aggregate ) 
 
(Ch$ million ) 
1 2 3 4 
Non-product -specific AMS (from 
Supporting Table DS:9 below ) 47,790  47,790 "de minimis "1 
(1) Total value of 201 4 agricultural production : Ch$7,493,605 million . 
Source : Central Bank of Chile .   
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Supp orting Table DS: 9 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: 2014  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure type(s)  Year 2014  Non-product -specific 
budgetary outlays  
 
(Ch$  million ) Other non -product -specific 
support (include calculation 
details)  Associated 
fees/levie s Total non -product -
specific support  
 
(Ch$  million ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 5 6 
(3+4-5) 7 
Land reclamation   27,360   27,360 Agricultural 
Development 
Institute 
(INDAP)/  
Agriculture 
and Livestock 
Service 
(SAG)  
Irrigation Law No. 18.450   20,430   20,430 Nation al 
Irrigation 
Commission 
(CNR)  
TOTAL      47,790    
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Table DS: 1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: 2015  
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level for period in question  Currency  
(Ch$ million ) Current total AMS  
(Ch$ million) 
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule ) (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule ) (from attached Supporting Tables ) 
1 3 4 
 - "de minimis "* 
* See Supporting Table DS:4 .   
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Supporting Table DS: 1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: 2015  
Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment - "Green Box " 
Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria 
in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in 
year in question  
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
2.2 General services     
(a) Res earch  Agricultural research  
Partial financing for innovation projects;  
technological applications;  
innovation support information . 
 8,947,075 Foundation for 
Agricultural Innovation 
(FIA) 
 Research and development centres  
Generation, adaptation and dissemi nation 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 . 15,200,429 Agricultural Research 
Institute (INIA)  
    
(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 t echnologies, and management . 
 50,465,345 Agricultural 
Development Institute 
(INDAP ) 
 Support for organizations (PRODES : Fund for Organizational 
Development Projects ): support for organizational development 
and entrepreneurial and  organizational capacity b uilding 
(management, training, leadership and  business development ). 
     
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Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria 
in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in 
year in question  
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
 Business management centre for small producers (CEGE ): 
provision of direct technical and economic (accounting, fiscal, legal 
and strategic) advisory  services . 
   
 Development promot ion 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 wome n are attending technical training, personal training, 
management training and organizational development workshops . 
 1,395,972 Agricultural 
Development Institute 
(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 . 223,181 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO)  
    
(d) Extension and adviso ry 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 
 
Irrigation and Energy Effic iency Pre -Investment 
Programmes (PIR  and PIEE) : support for the contracting of 
advisory services to design irrigation projects . 
 1,837,780 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO)  
(e) Inspection services for sanitary, safety, 
etc. purposes  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 impair this resource . 
 67,426,120 Agriculture and 
Livestock Service (SAG )   
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Measure type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria 
in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in 
year in question  
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
(f) Marketing and promotion services  Promotion Programme (PROFO) : scheme for the payment of 
incentives to encourage business moderni zation through the 
association of similar or complementary enterprises established in 
the same area . 
 1,682,493 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO)  
 Supplier Development Programme (PDP) : support for the 
assessment, prepar ation and development of business projects 
with a view to improving supplier quality and productivity.  
 2,196,488 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture/Production 
Promotion Corporation 
(CORFO)  
(g) Infrastructural services  Law No. 18.450 : promotion of private inve stment in irrigation 
and drainage works, as a means of encouraging the construction 
of small -scale hydraulic works for agricultural use . 
 21,060,467 National Irrigation 
Commission (CNR)  
 Irrigation for small -scale farming : support for the 
diversification and greater productivity of small -scale farming by 
introducing, improving and expanding irrigation . 
 4,951,114 Agricultural 
Development Institute 
(INDAP)  
2.5 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 . 
 4,353,240 Agricultural Insurance 
Committee (COMSA)  
2.8 Payments for relief from natural 
disasters Agricultural Emergency Fund : assistance for the agricultural 
sector to offset the adverse effects of climatic events . 0 Vice-Ministry of 
Agriculture  
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: 2015  
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 of measure in year in 
question  
 
(Ch$ thousand ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 
Investment subsidies generally available 
to agriculture   Investment incentive  9,525,892 Agricultural Development 
Institute (INDAP)  
Prepared by the Office for Ag ricultural Research and Policy (ODEPA) of the Ministry of Agriculture .   
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Supporting Table DS: 4 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: 2015  
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products 
(including non -prod uct-specific 
AMS) Product -specific AMS  
(from Supporting Tables  
DS:5 to DS:7 below ) 
(Ch$ million ) Product -specific measurements  
of support (from Supporting Table DS:8 
below ) Current total AMS (aggregate ) 
 
 
(Ch$ million ) 
1 2 3 4 
Non-product -specific AMS (f rom 
Supporting Table DS:9 below ) 54,256  54,256 "de minimis "1 
(1) Total value of 2015 agricultural production : Ch$8,000,000 million  (provisional figure ). 
Source : Estimated by ODEPA on the basis of data provided by the Central Bank of Chile .   
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Supporting T able DS: 9 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: CHILE  
REPORTING PERIOD: 2015  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure type(s)  Year 2015  Non-product -specific 
budgetary outlays  
 
(Ch$  million ) Other non -product -specific 
support (include calculation 
details)  Associated 
fees/levies  Total non-product -
specific support  
 
(Ch$  million ) Data source  
1 2 3 4 5 6 
(3+4-5) 7 
Land reclamation   29,014   29,014 Agricultural 
Development 
Institute 
(INDAP)/  
Agriculture 
and Livestock 
Service (SAG ) 
Irrigation Law No. 18.450   25,242   25,242 National 
Irrigation 
Commission 
(CNR)  
TOTAL      54,256  
 
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