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ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/AUS/40/Rev.1 
25 March 2009 
 (09-1455) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Revision
 
  
 The following submission, dated 10 March 2009, is  being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Australia .  The revised notification concer ns export subsidy commitments ( Tables 
ES:1 to ES:3 ) for financial year 2000/2001 . 
 
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  In the notification by Australia concerning export subsidy commitments for financial year 
2000/2001 (G/AG/N/AUS/40), please note that Table ES:2 should not have originally contained reporting on wheat, sugar, bovine meat, sheepmeat, cotton or pears (and quinces).  This is because Australia only reports dairy products on a financia l year basis, whereas the aforementioned products 
should have been reported on a calendar year b asis (see G/AG/N/AUS/33 for reporting on these 
products for calendar year 2000, and G/AG/N/AUS/47 for calendar year 2001). A revised table is reproduced below, and includes revised trade data for dairy products because there have been minor 
adjustments to the relevant historical tr ade data since the original notification. 
 
 Further, Table ES:3 was not reported in the original notification.  The only commodities 
Australia reports on a financial year basis are dairy products.  Other commodities are reported on a 
calendar year basis (see G/AG/N/AUS/33/Rev.1).  Aust ralia notifies that it did not provide any dairy 
products commodities as physical food aid in financ ial year 2000/2001.  Aust ralia provided additional 
food aid in the form of cash contributions to international agencies.  
 Australia confirms that no export subsidies we re provided for dairy products (Table ES:1) as 
originally notified.   
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Table ES:2  
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Australia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Financial year 2000/2001 
 
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports 
 
Description of products Financial year 
1 July 2000 – 30 June 2001 Quantity of total exports 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 
   
Butter and butter oil1  107,528 
Cheese1  218,958 
Skim milk powder1  202,699 
Other milk products1  393,018 
   
 
 
Source : Australian Bureau of Statistics 
 
1.  Australia has export subsidy commitments for dairy products, as specified in Secti on II of Part IV of its Schedule, and is notifying 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 i s based on the ratio set out in Table 19, p. 28, Weights, 
Measures, and Conversion Factors for Agri cultural Commodities and Their Products (1992),  Economic Research Service in cooperation w ith the Agricultural Marketing Service, 
the Agricultural Research Service, and the National Agricultural St atistics Service, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural  Handbook No 697. 
 
 
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