G/AG/N/AUS/104  
 
19 October  2016 
(16-5654) Page: 1/4 
Committee on Agriculture  Origin al: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 14 October  2016, 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 2014/15, and for calendar year 2015. 
 
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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 201 4/15, and 
• pears for the calendar year 201 5. 
 
Table ES:2  
 
2. Total exports for the following commodities are provided in the attached Table ES:2:  
• products for which Australia has export subsidy commitments — butter and butter oil, 
cheese, skim milk powder and o ther milk products (financial year 201 4/15) and pears 
(calendar year 201 5). 
• 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 (calendar 
year 2015); and  as per G/AG/W/123 - butter and butter oil, cheese, skim milk powder, 
other milk products (financial year 201 4/15), live animals, and wine (calendar 
year 2015). 
 
Food Aid  
 
3. Australia untied its food aid in 2005.  Since then Australia has not provided physica l food aid 
(Table ES:3).  Australia instead provided food assistance 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:  FINANCIAL YEAR 201 4/2015 AND CALENDAR YEAR 20 15 
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports  
Description of products  Financial year 201 4/201 5 or 
Calendar year 201 5 as noted  Quantity of total exports  Quantity of total exports(of  products as per the 
list of "Significant Exporters")  
  (tonnes)  (tonnes , numbers of live animals  
and litres  of wine ) 
1 2 3 4 
I: Products from Part IV (Section II) of the Schedule     
Butter and butter oila 1 July 201 4 – 30 June 201 5 41,548   
Cheesea " 158,690   
Skim milk powdera " 186,515   
Other milk productsa " 303,783   
Pears (and quinces)a, b 1 January 201 5 – 31 December 201 5 10,394   
II: Products as per the lists of "Significant Exporters"  
(G/AG/2/Add.1 and G/AG/W/123)     
Wheat and wheat floura, c, of which:  1 January 201 5 – 31 December 201 5  17,071,345  
1001a, c "  17,036,196 
Sugar a, c "  3,804,561  
Bovine meata, c, of which:  "  1,316,566  
0201a, c "  325,271 
0202a, c "  991,29 6 
Sheep meata, c "  411,348  
Cottona, c, of which:  "  446,757  
5201a, c "  446,002 
Butter and butter oila, d 1 July 201 4 – 30 June 201 5  41,548   
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- 3 - Description of products  Financial year 201 4/201 5 or 
Calendar year 201 5 as noted  Quantity of total exports  Quantity of total exports(of  products as per the 
list of "Significant Exporters")  
  (tonnes)  (tonnes , numbers of live animals  
and litres  of wine ) 
1 2 3 4 
Cheesea, d 1 July 201 4 – 30 June 201 5  158,690  
Skim milk powdera, d "  186,515  
Other milk productsa, d, of which:  "  303,783  
0401a, d "  161,239  
040221a, d "  69,999  
0404a, d "  33,564  
Live animalsa, d, of which:  1 January 201 5 – 31 December 201 5  3,784,570  
0102a, d "  1,378,835  
0104a, d "  2,270,906  
Winea, d, of which:  "  744,893,211  
2204a, d "  744,620,463  
a. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.  
b. Australia ha s export subsidy commitments for pears, as a product specified in Section II of Part IV of its Schedule, and is notifying tot al exports as required 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).  
Australia has export subsidy commitments for dairy products, as specified in Section II of Part IV of its Schedule, and is no tifying total exports as required 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.  Milk 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 Service in cooperation with the Agricultural Marketing S ervice, the Agricultural Research Service, and the 
National Agricultural Statistics Service, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Handbook No 697.  
c. Australia is notifying total exports as required by G/AG/2/Add.1.   
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- 4 - d. Australia is notifying total ex ports as required by G/AG/W/123.   
Australia is a significant exporter of these products, and is notifying total exports as required by G/AG/2/Add.1 and G/AG/W/ 123. Reported trade 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, 0202 and 021020 of the Harmonized System.  
 Sheep meat  includes exports under 0204 (excluding 020450 Goat meat) of th e Harmonized System.  
 Cotton includes exports under 5201 to 5203 of the  Harmonized System.  
 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 exp orts under 040210 of the Harmonized System.  
 Other milk products includes exports under 0401, 040221, 040229, 040291, 040299, 0403, 0404, 170211, 170219, 350110, and 350190 of the Harmonized System . This definition of other milk 
products includes those list ed as other milk products in G/AG/W/123 and in Section II of Part IV of the Schedule.  Milk 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 s et out in Table 19, p. 28, Weights, Measures, and Conversion Factors for Agricultural Commodities and 
Their Products (1992), Economic Research Service in cooperation with the Agricultural Marketing Service, the Agricultural Res earch Service, and the Nation al Agri cultural Statistics Service, 
US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Handbook No 697.  
 Live animals includes exports under 0101 to 0106 of the Harmonized System. Measured as number of animals, not tonnes.  
 Wine includes exports under 2204 and 2205  of the Harmonized System.  
 
 
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