G/AG/N/BRA/48  
 
14 March 2018  
(18-1542) Page: 1/9 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 7 February  2018, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Brazil . The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS:1 and 
the relevant Supporting T ables) for the crop year  from 1 July 2015  to 30 June 2016 . 
 
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- 2 - Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BR AZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CR OP YEAR FROM 1 JULY 2015 TO 30 JUNE 2016  
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level  Currency  Current Total AMS  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from attached Supporting Tables)  
1  2  3  
912,105.15  USD/thousand  0 
 
   
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- 3 - Supporting Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BR AZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CA LENDAR YEAR 2016  
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box"  
Measure Type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in Annex 
2 Monetary value  
 
USD,thousand  Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
2.General Services      
2 (a). Research  Agricultural research program  106,788.4  General Budget  (1) 
Agricultural zoning service  189.2  General Budget  (1) 
Subtotal:  106,977.6    
2 (b). Pest and disease control  Agricultural Protection Program  34,636.3  General Budget  (2) 
Subtotal:  34,636.3    
2 (c). Training services  Capacity building programmes  0 General Budget  (3) 
Educational services for rural areas  10,236.2  General Budget  (3) 
Subtotal:  10,236.2    
2 (d). Extension and advisory services  Acquisition of equipment by municipalities for services in rural areas  0 General Budget  (4) 
Extension services on agricultural production  107,798.4  General Budget  (4) 
Extension services on rural development  38,029  General Budget  (4) 
Extension services on sustainability and competitiveness  1,832.1  General Budget  (4) 
Support for projects of agricultural development  126,734.8  General Budget  (4) 
Support for technological innovation projects to family farming  214.6  General Budget  (4) 
Technology transfer  12,183.4  General Budget  (4) 
Weather forecast information  9,791.7  General Budget  (4) 
Subtotal:  296,584    
2 (e). Inspection services  Inspection of agricultural activities  171.7  General Budget  (5) 
Inspection of organic production  12.6 General Budget  (5) 
Subtotal:  184.3    
2 (f). Marketing and promotion services  International promotion services  3,083.3  General Budget  (6) 
Support for marketing projects  308 General Budget  (6) 
Subtotal:  3,391.3    
2 (g). Infrastructural services  Support for infrastructure projects in rural areas  2,899.1  General Budget  (7) 
Support for irrigation programmes  92,704.5  General Budget  (7) 
Subtotal:  95,603.6    
2 (h). Other general services  Acquisition of rural land for agrarian organization  72,379.4  General Budget  (8) 
Management of the rural settlement program  9,759.4  General Budget  (8) 
Preparatory measures to acquisition of rural land  40,320.3  General Budget  (8) 
Subtotal:  122,459.2    
3. Public stockholding for food security purposes  Inspection of public stocks  328 General Budget  (9) 
Program of acquisition of agricultural products from family farming  172,447.1  General Budget  (9)  
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- 4 - Measure Type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in Annex 
2 Monetary value  
 
USD,thousand  Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
Subtotal:  172,775.1    
4. Domestic food aid  Meals for children in public schools  982,295.9  General Budget  (10) 
Subtotal:  982,295.9    
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Warranty -Crop Fund.  126,747.9  General Budget  (11) 
 Subtotal:  126,747.9    
Grand Total Green Box  1,951,891.3    
1 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, related to infrastructure, acquisition of equipment and other expenditures in activities of coordination an d 
maintenance of research and the diffusion of their results.  
2 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities  related to animal and plant health services, zoosanitary and phytosanitary defense and alertness, 
inspection and disease control, training programmes related to disease control and prevention, warning services.  
3 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public  resources, in activities related to secondary education that provides intermediate professional qualification and higher 
education oriented to rural activities provided by agricultural colleges and universities.  
4 Budgetary expenditures, financed by publi c resources, in activities that provide technical assistance and rural extension services to small producers, operation and 
improvement of meteorological services, services for cooperatives and other farm associations (studies, researches and traini ng). 
5 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to classification and inspection of animal and ve getal products, improvement of seed 
production and marketing (seed fields registration), standardization and grading, animal geneti c and zootechnic improvement.  
6 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to improvement of the marketing system and develo pment of new markets, support to the 
creation and maintenance of expositions parks and fair facilit ies, building and maintenance of central market facilities, and improvement of agricultural market 
information services.  
7 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to implementation and operation of irrigation pro grammes,  construction and maintenance of 
public dams for irrigation and for urban water supply, construction of rural roads, rural housing, rural electricity network services and facilities, electricity distribution, 
forestry development and management and environ mental programmes.  
8 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to agrarian policy, agrarian reform and settlemen t projects.  
9 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to expenditures with  formation, maintenance and selling of government stocks which form an 
integral part of a federal food security programme as defined by Law N°8171 ("Agriculture Law"), from 17/01/91.  
10 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities re lated to expenditures with food assistance programmes targeted to the poor.  
11 Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to decrease risk and uncertainty in agriculture, through agricultural insurance sponsored by 
the fede ral government.  
   
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- 5 - Supporting Table DS:2  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BR AZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CROP  YEAR FROM 1 JULY 2015 TO 30 JU NE 2016  
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  
 
USD,thousand  Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
(a) Investment subsidies generally available to agriculture  Investment Credit - Government and private funds, 
directed to improve  rural structure, acquisitions of 
machines, equipment, vehicles and animal services  561,179.2  MAPA  (1) 
Subtotal:  561,179.2    
(b) Input subsidies available to low -income or resource -poor producers  Production Credit - government and private funds, mostly 
compulsory, allocated to production at preferential interest 
rates generally available to low -income or resource -poor 
producers (under PRONAF Program)  142,155  MAPA  (2) 
Agricultural Input Subsidies - government funds generally 
available to low -income or resource -poor producers (under 
PRONAF Program)  1,695.4  General Budget   
Debt Rescheduling - Rescheduling of debts in longer terms 
and most favorable conditions (under PRONAF and 
PROCERA Programs)  27,276.5  National Treasure  (3) 
Subtotal:  171,126.9    
Grand Total Development Programmes  732,306.1    
1 Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the interest rate of each of the following programmes and SELIC interest rat e: ABC (Low Carbon Agriculture Program), 
BNDES PSI -BK (Program for the Sustainability of Investment in Capital Goods), BNDES/FINAME  (Special Agency for Industrial Financing), FTRA (Special Program for 
Acquisition of Rural Land), Constitutional Funds (FNO, FNE and FCO), Inovagro (Program to Encourage Innovation in Agricultura l Production), Moderagro (Program for 
the Modernization of Ag riculture and the Conservation of Natural Resources), Moderfrota (Tractor Fleet Modernization Incentives Program), Moderinfra  (Incentives 
Program for Irrigation and Storage), PCA (Program for the Construction and Expansion of Warehouses), PRI (Investment E nhancement Program), Procap -Agro 
(Agricultural Cooperatives Capitalization Program), Prodecoop (Cooperative Development Program for the Enhancement of Agricul tural Value Added), Pronamp (Medium 
Scale Agricultural Producer Support Program), and Rural Saving s, Mandatory Resources and State Funds at controlled interest rates.  
2 Implicit subsidy based on the difference between PRONAF (Program to Strengthen Household Agriculture) interest rate and SELIC  (Special System for Liquidation and 
Custody) interest rate (interest rate for the overnight inter -bank loans collateralized by government bonds).  
3 Implicit subsidy based on the difference between PRONAF (Program to Strengthen Household Agriculture) and PROCERA (Special Cr edit Program for Agrarian Reform) 
reschedu led interest rate and SELIC interest rate.  
   
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- 6 - Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BR AZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CR OP YEAR FROM 1 JULY 2015 TO 30 JUNE 2016  
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products (includ ing 
non-product specific AMS)  
 
 Product specific 
AMS (from ST DS:5 
to DS:7)  
USD,thousand  Product -specific 
EMS (from ST DS:8)  
 
USD,thousand  Total  
(2 + 3)  
 
USD,thousand  Value of production  
 
 
USD,thousand  Support as a 
% of value of 
production  Current Total AMS 
 
 
USD,thousand  Note  
 
1 2 3    4  
Coffee  13,437.7   13,437.7  6,121,519.0  0.22%  0 (de minimis)   
Sugar Cane  1,068.3   1,068.3  14,787,564.5  0.01%  0 (de minimis)   
Wheat  54,403.4   54,403.4  1,155,748.6  4.71%  0 (de minimis)   
Non-product -specific AMS(from ST/DS:9)  2,068,663.1  145,843,848.2  1.4%  0 (de minimis)   
TOTAL  0  
 
   
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- 7 - Supporting Table DS:6  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT : BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CROP YEAR FROM 1 JULY 2015 TO 30 JUNE 2016  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Non -Exempt Direct Payments  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting Year  Measure Types  Applied 
administered 
price  
 
 
USD External 
reference 
price 
(generally 
from 
AGST)  
 
USD Eligible 
production  Total price 
related 
direct 
payments  
((4-5)*6)  
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Other non 
exempt 
direct 
payments  
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Associated 
fees / levies  
 
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Total direct 
payment 
(7+8 -9) 
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Wheat  CRY 01-03-16 28-02-17 Agricultural 
Products' Sale 
Option Private 
Premium (PEPRO)      47,229.8   47,229.8  MAPA  (1) 
Total Wheat            47,229.8    
1 The corresponding credit contracts under this programme were defined in July 2015, for the crop year between March 2016 and February 2017.  
   
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- 8 - Supporting Table DS:7  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BR AZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CR OP YEAR FR OM 1 JULY 2015 TO 30 JU NE 2016  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Other Product -Specific Support and Total Product -Specific AMS  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting Year  Measure 
Types  Other 
product -
specific 
budgetar
y outlays  
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Other 
product 
specific 
support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
USD,  
thousand  Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
produc t-
specific 
support  
(4+5 -6) 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Market price 
support  
(from ST DS:5)  
 
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Non-exempt 
direct 
payments  
(from ST DS:6)  
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
 
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
            
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Wheat  CRY 01-03-16 28-02-17 Premium for 
Product 
Outflow 
(PEP)  7,173.6    7,173.6     MAPA  (1) 
Total 
Wheat         7,173.6   47,229.8  54,403.4    
Coffee  CRY 01-07-15 30-06-16 Product -
specific 
credit   13,437.7   13,437.7     MAPA  (2) 
Total  
Coffee         13,437.7    13,437.7    
Sugar Cane  CRY 01-07-15 30-06-16 Product -
specific 
credit   1,068.3   1,068.3     MAPA  (3) 
Total Sugar 
Cane         1,068.3    1,068.3    
The following products may be supported by non -exempt support program mes, according to the available funds and the market price: barley, Brazilian wax, canola, cashew nut, 
cassava, cassava flour, cassava starch, castor beans, coffee, cotton, cottonseed, edible beans, ethanol, garlic, grapes, guar ana, jute, maize, malva, milk,  oat, orange, peanuts, 
rice, silk cocoon, sisal, sorghum, soybeans, sugar cane, sunflower, triticale and wheat. If the product is not listed in this  table, it means the product received no support during the 
crop-year. Some products have the right to be su pported only  on specific States or Regions.  
1 The corresponding credit contracts under this programme were defined by in July 2015, for the crop year between March 2016 an d February 2017.  
2 Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the Brazilian Cof fee Fund (FUNCAFE) interest rate and SELIC interest rate.  
3 Implicit subsidy based on the difference between PRORENOVA (Program to Support the Renewal and Creation of New Sugarcane Fiel ds) interest rate and SELIC (Special 
System for Liquidation and Custody) interest rate (interest rate for the overnight inter -bank loans collateralized by government bonds).   
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- 9 - Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT : BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CROP YEAR FROM 1 JULY 2015 TO 30 JUNE 2016  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure Types  Reporting Year  Non-product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
USD,thousand  Other non -product 
specific support 
(include calculation 
details)  
 
USD,thousand  Associated 
fees / levies  
 
 
 
USD,thousand  Total non -product -
specific support  
(3+4 -5) 
 
 
USD,thousand  Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
Non-product -specific production and marketing 
credit  CRY 01-07-15 30-06-16  697,578.3   697,578.3  MAPA  (1) 
Debt rescheduling programmes  CRY 01-07-15 30-06-16  933,660.3   933,660.3  National 
Treasure  (2) 
Insurance Programmes  FSY 01-01-16 31-12-16 437,424.5    437,424.5  General 
Budget  (3) 
TOTAL  2,068,663.1   
1 Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the interest rate of each of the following programs and SELIC (Special Syste m for Liquidation and Custody) interest 
rate (interest rate for the overnight inter -bank loans collateralized by government bonds):  Constitutional Funds (FNO, FNE and FCO), Pronamp (Medium -Scale 
Agricultural Producer Support Program), and Rural Savings and Mandatory Resources at controlled interest rates.  
2 Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the rescheduled program inter est rate and SELIC interest rate. The debt reschedule programs are: Rural Debt 
Securitization and PESA (Program of Financial Assets Rehabilitation).  
3 Program of Support to Rural Insurance Premiums (PSR) and Agricultural Livestock Guarantee Program (PROAGR O). 
 
 
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