G/AG/N/AUS/90  
 
17 October 2013  
(13-5711)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
The following submission, dated 9 October 2013, 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 2011/12 , and for calendar year 2012 . 
 
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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 2011/12, and 
• pears for the calendar year 2012. 
 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 
2012); 
• products for which Australia has export subsidy commitments — butter and butter oil, 
cheese, skim milk powder and other milk products (financial year 2011/12) and pears 
(calendar year 2012). 
 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 2012 
Export Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports 
Description of products Calendar ye ar 2012 Quantity of total exports  
 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 
Wheat and wheat flour1 1 January - 31 December 23,574,720 
Sugar1 " 1,755,532 
Bovine meat1 " 998,559 
Sheepmeat1 " 310,881 
Cotton1 " 1,212,473 
Pears (and quinces)2 " 7,639 
 
                                               
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 tr ade 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 2011/2012 
Export Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports 
Description of products Financial Year  2011/2012 Quantity of total exports  
 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 
Butter and butter oil3 1 July – 30 June 46,104 
Cheese3 " 161,234 
Skim milk powder3 " 141,560 
Other milk products3 " 301,416 
 
 
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3 Source: Australian Bu reau 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 requir ed 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 converte d 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 Agricultur al Commodities and Their Products (1992), Economic Research Serv ice in cooperation with the Agricultural 
Marketing Service, the Agri cultural Research Service, and the National Agricu ltural Statistics Service, US Department of Agricu lture, Agricultural Handbook No 697.