G/AG/W/125/Add.3/Corr.1  
 
28 May 2014  
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Committee on Agriculture    
 
 EXPORT SUBSIDIES, EXPORT CREDITS, EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEES 
OR INSURANCE PROGRAMMES, INTERNATIONAL FOOD AID 
AND AGRICULTURAL EXPORTING STATE TRADING ENTERPRISES 
BACKGROUND DOCUMENT BY THE SECRETARIAT1 
Food Aid 
Corrigendum* 
In the document G/AG/W/125/Add.3, the table "Food Aid Quantities – Notifications ES:3" for Japan 
on pages 12 to 17 should be replaced by the table reproduced below.   
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1 This document has been prepared under the Secret ariat's own responsibility and is without prejudice 
to the positions of Members or to their rights and obligations under the WTO. It has been prepared for 
information only and is not intended to provide any authoritative or official legal interpretation of the provisions 
of the WTO Agreements in general or in relation to any specific entity or measure listed in this document. 
* In English only.  
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- 2 - Japan 
Food Aid Quantities1 - Notification ES:3 - Fiscal Year (1 April-31 March) 
Product Destination 1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001 2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009 
 
Beans Lesotho (through WFP)                 1,176              
Biscuit, fortified noodle Indonesia (through WFP)                   1,400            
Bulgur wheat  Liberia (through WFP)                     2,314          
Bulgur wheat  West Africa Coastal (in Sierra 
Leone, Guinea) (through WFP)                   3,930            
Bulgur wheat, pulses Liberia (through WFP)                       1,779        
Bulgur wheat, pulses, CSB
2 Sierra  Leone (through WFP)                       1,663        
Canned tuna Republic of Congo (through 
WFP)                 354             
Canned tuna Caucasus            545                   
Canned tuna Sri Lanka (through WFP)             281                 
Coarse grains African Refugees (through WFP)         49,88
1                     
Coarse grains Haiti          12,67
3                     
Coarse grains Kenya (through WFP)         15,51
1 18,63
2                   
Coarse grains Malawi      10,80
2                         
Coarse grains Somalia (through WFP)     1,689                          
Coarse grains Sudan (through WFP)     5,330  4,613  9,774  6,794                    
CSB2 Swaziland (through WFP)                         1,517      
CSB Timor-Leste (through WFP)                             1,473 
CSB2, pulses Philippines (through WFP)                       1,760        
CSB2, pulses Nicaragua (through WFP)                       1,110        
CSB2, vegetable oil, 
maize Zimbabwe (through WFP)                 983             
CSB, Wheat flour, Pulses, 
Vegetable oil Bolivia, Plurinational State of 
(through WFP)                           5,959    
Maize Cape Verde                3,029                
Maize Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan in 
Kenya (through WFP)               3,491                
Maize Lesotho (through WFP)               3,472                
Maize Malawi (through WFP)               8,680      4,317  6,086        
Maize Senegal                2,881                
Maize Somalia and Sudan in Kenya 
(through WFP)                 2,111              
Maize Zambia (through WFP)               5,208  1,891    3,329          
Maize Zimbabwe (through WFP)                     3,339  2,443  6,703      
Maize flou r Democratic Republic of Congo 
(through WFP except in 2008                           13,13
0 10,82
4  
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and 2009 not mentioned) 
Maize flou r Lesotho (through WFP)                           3,456    
Maize flou r Swaziland                             11,94
8 
Maize flour, Canned tuna Republic of Congo (through 
WFP)                             1,770 
Maize flour, CSB, YSP Lesotho (through WFP)                             3,000 
Maize flour, CSB Guinea-Bissau (through WFP)                             3,504 
Maize flour, Pulses Chad (through WFP)                           1,771    
Maize flour, Pulses, CSB Uganda (through WFP)                             6,133 
Maize flour, YSP, CSB Chad (through WFP)                             2,560 
Maize meal Democratic Republic of Congo 
(through WFP)               5,823                
Maize meal Lesotho (through WFP)                   1,798  2,167  1,589        
Maize meal Swaziland (through WFP)                   1,772  2,134  1,783        
Maize meal, beans Malawi (through WFP)                 2,574              
Maize, beans Central America (in Nicaragua, 
Honduras, El Salvador, 
Guatemala) (through WFP)                 1,540  6,266            
Maize, canned tuna Nicaragua (through WFP)                     1,630          
Maize and wheat flou r Kenya (through WFP)             14,44
1                 
Maize, Maize meal Uganda (through WFP)               9,684                
Maize, CSB2 Zambia (through WFP)                   2,029    2,991        
Maize, CSB2, pulses Philippines (through WFP)                     2,076          
Maize, CSB2, pulses Central America (in Nicaragua, 
Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala) (through WFP)               6,805                
Maize, CSB2, pulses Great Lakes (in Burundi, 
Rwanda, Tanzania) (through 
WFP)               12,01
1               
Maize, CSB2, pulses Swaziland (through WFP)               1,595                
Maize, Pulses, CSB Uganda (through WFP)                           5,683    
Maize, CSB, Pulse Wheat Ethiopia (through WFP)                           14,39
8   
Maize, Sorghum Sudan (through WFP)               7,048                
Maize, pulse, vegetable 
oil, salt Angola (through WFP)                 4,656              
Maize meal, CSB2, pulses Lesotho (through WFP)                         2,937      
Maize, Pulses Swaziland (through WFP)                           1,766    
Maize, rice Malawi (through WFP)                         6,973      
Pulse Malawi (through WFP)                   1,320            
Pulse, Canned tuna Republic of Congo (through 
WFP)               2,054                
Pulse, WSB4 Myanmar (through WFP)                             4,199  
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- 4 - Product Destination 1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001 2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009 
 
Rice Afghan Refugees (through WFP)     9,979                          
Rice Angola      12,11
2   16,03
0 22,41
4 20,00
2 14,06
6 4,798  4,598  5,792  2,575        
Rice Bangladesh (through WFP 
except in 1999 not mentioned)       25,02
5 30,00
7         12,52
8   5,960    8,315   
Rice Benin      5,106  3,612  4,413  7,743  4,366 5,117  5,134  4,474  5,562      10,83
1 12,10
5 
Rice Burkina Faso     7,599  7,352  7,561  8,025    6,485  6,100  5,510  5,303  4,386  5,270   14,14
2 
Rice Burundi (through WFP -  except 
in 2009 not mentioned)                     2,070    3,220  3,685  5,681 
Rice Cambodia (through WFP)     16,53
2 10,20
0 15,91
7 21,05
0 21,03
0 21,15
5 14,93
6             
Rice Cape Verde      3,585  2,800  3,614  5,701  4,251 4,024  3,691  2,900  3,523  2,532  3,102  5,777  5,409 
Rice Central African Republic 
(through WFP)                         2,874  2,499    
Rice Comoros      4,569                      7,500    
Rice Côte d'Ivoire (through WFP - 
except in 2008 and 2009 not mentioned)                 2,381  2,300  2,303  2,183    7,158  
+8,47
3 9,016 
Rice Democratic Republic of the 
Congo                 6,577  3,703  7,138  5,212  6,162  8,558    
Rice Djibouti      5,078  3,717  4,100        3,661  3,394  1,923  1,646    15,01
8   
Rice The Gambia                5,658  4,903  3,814  3,241  3,290    7,931    
Rice Ghana        4,793  8,512  10,62
3 10,50
4           8,061  16,03
5   
Rice Great Lakes (in Burundi, 
Rwanda, Tanzania) (through 
WFP)                 3,224              
Rice Guinea (through WFP in 2006)     4,831  5,005  6,400  13,75
4 11,26
0 10,03
1 9,435  7,561  6,626  1,726  5,746      
Rice Guinea-Bissau (through WFP)                       1,136  2,240  2,659    
Rice Haiti (through WFP in 2004)     10,05
5 8,170    10,75
1 10,24
6 7,071    3,490  6,777  5,350  7,649  8,355  10,57
3 
Rice Honduras (through WFP)       2,984                        
Rice Indonesia (through WFP)       40,70
2 50,16
8     15,82
0               
Rice Indonesia        14,58
4                       
Rice Indonesia (loan of rice)       600,0
00                       
Rice Kenya (through WFP)                    3,644  3,163  7,151  6,218  7,495    
Rice Lao  People's Democratic 
Republic (through WFP in 2003)     10,46
6 7,816  10,52
7 15,94
5 15,00
0 15,92
5 6,599  7,942  7,510  6,388        
Rice Liberia (through WFP) except in 
2008 not mentioned                 2,862          8,612     
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Rice Madagasca r     6,390  5,189  9,905  11,86
8       4,715  8,857          
Rice Malawi        4,889                        
Rice Maldives        2,718                        
Rice Mali                  5,996  5,316  4,872  3,336  5,330  11,68
5 12,20
0 
Rice Mauritania      4,776  7,560  7,010  8,864  9,002 8,655  8,166  7,748  6,629  6,040  7,629    10,66
2 
Rice Mongolia        8,659      14,40
6               9,738 
Rice Mozambique (partly through 
WFP in 2000 and through WFP in 2005)     12,54
0 10,70
0 14,04
5 24,79
5 18,55
2 13,73
3 8,367    2,537  3,135      16,94
4 
Rice Nepal          9,268        9,700  8,283  5,544  5,249  7,139  9,660  11,18
5 
Rice Nicaragua (through WFP)                           4,174    
Rice Nige r     8,067  8,170  8,007  9,216    9,306  7,206  6,396  7,723  5,225  5,145  11,60
7 8,135 
Rice North Korea (through WFP)     67,00
0     500,0
00                   
Rice Palestine Refugees (through 
UNRWA)       15,61
4                       
Rice Philippines (through WFP)                           10,46
0   
Rice Papua New Guinea     8,018                          
Rice Republic of Congo (through 
WFP)                   2,218  1,116  1,210  2,518  2,809    
Rice Rwanda (through WFP except in 
1995 - not mentioned)     4,014                2,192  1,320        
Rice Sao Tome and Principe (through 
WFP in 2006)     3,293  3,011  3,097  4,802  5,005 2,773  3,311      1,486  4,339  4,330  3,324 
Rice Senegal      6,360  4,980  5,556  9,341  6,849 7,396  6,776  5,652  6,055  5,660    14,13
7 15,97
2 
Rice Sierra Leone                           6,220    
Rice Sri Lanka (through WFP)               12,56
5 4,632  3,175            
Rice Tanzania (through WFP in 2005 
and 2006)     13,43
1 13,24
0 16,89
8 21,94
0 20,00
3 17,01
6 8,801  7,703  3,776  3,290  12,41
6   17,30
9 
Rice Timor-Leste (through WFP)                      1,220  1,274  1,896  1,565    
Rice Togo     4,111                          
Rice Uganda (through WFP)                 1,567  3,270  2,837  4,080  5,176      
Rice, canned tuna Bangladesh (through WFP)                     8,050          
Rice, canned tuna Cambodia (through WFP)                       1,829        
Rice, canned tuna Great Lakes (in Burundi, 
Rwanda) (through WFP)                   3,431            
Rice, canned tuna Mozambique (through WFP)                   3,150            
Rice, canned tuna Sri Lanka (through WFP)                         6,475  5,917     
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Rice, maize Burundi  (through WFP)                       2,166        
Rice, maize, CSB2 Somalia  (through WFP)                       3,895        
Rice, maize, CSB2, 
sorghum/millet Côte d'Ivoire Regional (in Mali, 
Ghana, Burkina Faso) (through 
WFP)                   3,476            
Rice, pulses Afghanistan (through WFP)                     4,478          
Rice, pulses Iraq (through WFP)                 17,00
0             
Rice, pulses Somalia (through WFP)                         2,776      
Rice, vegetable oil, pulse Haiti (through WFP)                 3,352              
Rice, wheat, canned 
tuna, pulse, and maize 
meal  African Refugees (through WFP)             48,46
0                 
Rice, wheat flour  The Gambia                              10,38
9 
Sorghum Ethiopia and Eritrea in Sudan 
(through WFP)                 2,066              
Sorghum Sudan (through WFP)                   7,728            
Sorghum and wheat Sudan (through WFP)             13,12
7                 
Sorghum, CSB Sudan (through WFP)                           9,088    
Vegetable oil Swaziland (through WFP)                 698             
Wheat Afghanistan (through WFP)               61,68
5       5,590  5,380      
Wheat Bangladesh (through WFP)                 5,587            29,17
1 
Wheat Chad (through WFP)                     1,452          
Wheat Eritrea              14,60
8 15,97
4 3,304  3,558  7,384  10,36
2 5,915  17.23
3   
Wheat Ethiopia                38,56
6 6,288  6,819  13,88
0 11,27
6 9,596   26,54
8 
Wheat Georgia (through WFP)               2,182                
Wheat Liberia (through WFP)                   2,423            
Wheat Mongolia                19,19
1 4,874  9,730  9,271  8,331  10,27
0     
Wheat Mozambique                            29,65
8   
Wheat Palestine (through UNWRA in 
2002)             8,562 17,47
3               
Wheat Sudan (through WFP)                     3,108          
Wheat Togo                           24,06
2   
Wheat Tanzania                3,082                
Wheat Western Sahara (in Cape Verde, 
Mauritania, Senegal, The 
Gambia, Mali) (through WFP)               6,003                 
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Wheat Flou r Burkina Faso                           12,85
5   
Wheat flou r Georgia (through WFP)                 2,213  2,594            
Wheat flou r Maldives              4,927 5,438  4,620  5,988  3,792  2,800  3,300  8,093  9,006 
Wheat flou r Palestine (through WFP and 
through UNWRA in 2003)                 14,83
4 4,659  3,930          
Wheat flou r Tajikistan (through WFP)                   2,214            
Wheat flou r Afghan Refugees (through WFP)             10,69
1                 
Wheat flour, beans Tajikistan (through WFP)                 1,869              
Wheat flour, canned tuna Palestine (through WFP)                       2,055  2,350    3,842 
Wheat flour, Canned tuna West Africa (in Liberia, Sierra 
Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana) (through WFP)               3,897                
Wheat flour and red lentil Palestinian Refugees (through 
WFP)             13,91
2                 
Wheat flour, Pulses Afghanistan (through WFP)                           5,747    
Wheat flour, pulse Palestinian Refugees (through 
UNRWA)                   10,14
7 13,50
4 10,03
5   7,412  11,14
9 
Wheat flour, Pulses Tajikistan (through WFP)                           9,552  7,482 
Wheat flour, Pulses, Canned tuna Palestine (through WFP) 
                          2,034    
Wheat flour, CSB2 Chad (through WFP)                       1,130        
Wheat flour, YSP3, CSB2 Chad (through WFP)                         2,068      
Wheat, CSB2 Ethiopia (through WFP)                             13,42
7 
Wheat, CSB2 Sierra Leone (through WFP)                     1,873          
Wheat, CSB2 Sudan (through WFP)                       7,814        
Wheat, Pulse Afghanistan Refugees (through 
WFP)               25,30
5               
Wheat, Pulses Afghanistan (th rough WFP)                             9,995 
Wheat, Pulse Azerbaijan (through WFP)               2,467                
Wheat, Pulse Colombia (through WFP)               2,821                
Wheat, Pulse Palestinian Refugees (through 
UNRWA)                         6,260      
Wheat, Pulse Tajikistan (through WFP)               11,75
0               
Wheat, sorghum Sudan (through WFP)                     4,776          
Wheat, sorghum, YSP
1,CSB2, pulses Sudan (through WFP)                         14,06
1     
Wheat, YSP3 Liberia (through WFP)                         3,880      
Wheat, YSP3 Sudan (through WFP)                             5,662 
Wheat, YSP3, CSB2 Sierra Leone (through WFP)                          2,855      
Wheat and wheat flou r African Refugees (th rough WFP)     29,87
6 35,80
4                        
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- 8 - Product Destination 1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000  2001 2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009 
 
Wheat and wheat flou r Afghan refugees (through WFP)           12,33
8                   
Wheat and wheat flou r Bangladesh      53,76
3                         
Wheat and wheat flou r Caucasian Refugees (through 
WFP)     11,23
1                         
Wheat and wheat flou r Central African Republic     7,042                          
Wheat and wheat flou r Colombia            3,767                    
Wheat and wheat flou r Former Yugoslav Refugees 
(through WFP)     29,12
0 12,76
3                       
Wheat and wheat flou r Kosovo Refugees (through WFP)       9,473  11,88
3                     
Wheat and wheat flou r Maldives      3,570    5,831  10,62
3                   
Wheat and wheat flou r Mongolia      24,00
0   22,11
4 31,26
8                   
Wheat and wheat flou r Nepal      24,29
9                         
Wheat and wheat flou r North Caucasus           4,115                    
Wheat and wheat flou r Palestine Refugees (through 
UNRWA and through WFP in 1999)     20,46
0   28,28
4 25,51
9                   
Wheat and wheat flour; 
Coarse grains; and Rice  African refugees (through WFP)           32,92
1                   
1 Japan notified a total quantity of food aid of 530,000 tonnes of  rice for the Fiscal Year 1995. Japan notified that it did not  provide food aid between 1 April 1996 and 31 March 1997. 
2 CSB = Corn soy blend. 
3 YSP = Yellow split peas. 
4 WSB= Wheat soy blend.  
 
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