WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/TTO/12 
6 October 2009 
 (09-4802) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
  
 The following submission, dated 16 June 2009, is  being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Trinidad and Tobago .  The notification concerns domestic support commitments 
(Table DS:1  and the relevant Supporting Tables) for the financial year 2006/2007 . 
 
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 Apart from the measures listed in the attached Supporting Table DS:1, no other support is provided to agricultural producers.  
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Supporting Table DS:1 DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Trinidad and Tobago 
 
  REPORTING PERIOD:  Financial year  October 2006 to  September 2007 
 
  Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box" 
 
Measure Type Name and description of meas ure with reference to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in year in 
question 
 
(TT$ 1) Monetary value of 
measure (US$) 
 
(US$ 1 = TT$ 6.3) 
1 2 3 4 
(a) General Services  
(i) research, pests and disease control, 
extension and advisory services and 
inspection services Current Expenditure 2: 
Animal Production and Health 
Sugarcane Feed Centre 
Livestock and Livestock Products Board 
Agriculture 
Extension Division 
Land and Water Deve lopment Division 
Sugar Cane Research Extension and Support Services  
5,598,759.00 
7,710,000.00 
1,210,489.00 
96,534,277.00 
5,949,703.64 
4,297,600.00 
32,746,897.00  
 Total Current Expenditure 154,047,725.64  
    
 Capital Expenditure: 
Tech-Packs for New Product Devel opment and Provision of Facilities 
Enhancement of artificial breeding services capabilities 
Livestock Improve ment Programme 
Enhancement of Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory 
Agricultural Land Information Syst em and Inventory of State Land 
Integrated Pest Management Stra tegies for Improved Crop Protection 
Research Programme Centra l Experimental Station 
Livestock Database Manage ment Information System 
Management and control of infectious diseases 
Sugar Cane Feed Centre Establishment of Mandatory Citrus Quality Programme 
Expansion of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Capabilities  
500,000.00 
264,920.00 
996,178.00 
597,872.00 
2,170,460.00 
554,292.00 
1,498,807.00 
654,432.00 
127,907.00 
740,000.00 496,157.00 
1,176,736.00  
 Total Capital Expenditure 9,777,761.00  
 Total Current and Capital Expenditure 163,825,486.64 26,004,045.50   
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 Page 3Measure Type Name and description of meas ure with reference to criteria in Annex 2 Monetary value of measure in year in 
question 
 
(TT$ 1) Monetary value of 
measure (US$) 
 
(US$ 1 = TT$ 6.3) 
1 2 3 4 
(ii) marketing and promotion services Current Expenditure: 
National Agricultural Market ing and Development Company 
Cocoa and Coffee Industry Board  
22,212,700.00 
3,501,911.00  
 Total Current Expenditure 25,714,611.00  
    
 Capital Expenditure: 
Cost of Production Market Information and Other Surveys  
178,335.00  
 Total Capital Expenditure 178,335.00  
 Total Current and Capital Expe nditure 25,892,946.00 4,109,991.43 
    
Current Expenditure:  -  
Total Current Expenditure -  
   (iii) infrastructural services – drainage 
and irrigation servi ces, access roads, 
market infrastructure 
Capital Expenditure: 
Agricultural Access Roads 
Sustainable Management of Agri cultural Water – On-farm Irrigation 
Establishment of Packing House Facility for Fresh Produce Drainage and Irrigation  
57,124,035.00 
499,982.00 
959,839.00 
16,509,577.00  
 Total Capital Expenditure 75,093,433.00  
 Total Current and Capital Expe nditure 75,093,433.00 11,919,592.54 
    
(f) Payments from relief from 
natural disasters  Payment to farmers to assist in re pairing damage from flooding.  The 
payments do not fully comp ensate for the damage. 17,977,113.00 2,853,510.00 
GRAND TOTAL  282,788,978.64 44,887,139.47 
 1 All Recurrent Expenditure items taken from The Appropriation Account for the Fi nancial Year ended 30 September 2007  and the Estimates of Expenditures, 2009 .  All Capital 
Expenditure items taken from the Appropriation Account for the Fi nancial Year ended 30 September 2007  and the Estimates of Development Programme Expenditure, 2009 .  Figures 
used are  Actual Expenditure for Financial year 2007 .   
 2 The recurrent expenditure figures do not include Sa laries and Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). 
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