WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/AUS/28/Rev.1 
25 March 2009 
 (09-1450) 
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 1998/1999 . 
 
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  In the notification by Australia concerning expo rt subsidy commitments for the financial year 
1998/1999 (G/AG/N/AUS/28), the quantity of total expor ts reported in column 3 of Table ES:2 has 
been revised because there have been  minor adjustments to the relevant historical trade data since the 
original notification.  The complete Table ES:2 incl usive of this revised data is reproduced below. 
 
 Further, Table ES:3 was not reported in the orig inal notification.  Australia only notifies dairy 
products on a financial year basis.  Other comm odities are reported on a calendar year basis (see 
G/AG/N/AUS/24/Rev.1).  Australia notifies that it did not provide any dairy products commodities as 
physical food aid in financial y ear 1998/1999.  Australia provided a dditional food aid in the form of 
cash contributions to international agencies. 
  Australia confirms that there are no chang es to the export subsidies data (Table ES:1) 
originally notified, as contained in Table ES:1 reproduced below.   
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Page 2 Table ES:1  
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Australia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Financial year 1998/99 
 
Export Subsidies:  Budgetary Outlays and Quantity Reduction Commitments 
 
Description of products Financial year  
1 July 1998 – 30 June 1999 Subsidised exports Food aid Annual commitment levels 
  Outlays 
A$ million Quantity 
tonnes Quantity 
tonnes Outlays 
A$ million Quantity 
tonnes 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
       
Other milk products  2.0067 621 (fats) 
1,425 (solids non fat) 0 33.56 15,830 (fats) 
65,889 (solids non fat) 
       
 
Note : Australia provided no export subsidies (Table ES:1) in the fi nancial year 1998/99 for butter and butter oil, cheese, and skim  milk powder. 
 
Source :  Victorian Dairy Industry Authority.  
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 Page 3Supporting Table ES:1 
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Australia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Financial year 1998/99 
 
Export Subsidies:  Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments 
 
Description of products Direct 
export 
subsidies 
A$ million Sales of 
stocks Producer 
financed 
subsidies Cost reduction 
measures Internal 
transport 
subsidies Total product 
specific export 
subsidies 
A$ million Quantity of 
subsidised exports Data source 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
         
Other milk products 2.0067 - - - - 2.0067 621 (fats) 
1,425 (solids non 
fats) Victorian Dairy 
Industry Authority 
         
  
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Page 4 Table ES:2  
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Australia 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Financial year 1998/1999 
 
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports 
 
Description of products Financial year 
1 July 1998 – 30 June 1999 Quantity of total exports 
(tonnes) 
1 2 3 
   
Butter and butter oil1  104,418 
Cheese1  175,394 
Skim milk powder1  220,915 
Other milk products1  334,641 
   
 
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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