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ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/SPEC/VUT/6/Rev.3 
3 November 2010 
 (10-5844) 
Working Party on the  
Accession of Vanuatu Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF VANUATU 
 
Domestic Support and Export Subsidies in Agriculture  
 
Revision  
  The following submission, dated 31 May 2010,  is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the Republic of Vanuatu.  
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  REPUBLIC OF VANUATU 
 
Explanatory Notes:  Supporting Tables DS:1-9 and ES:1
 
 1. Domestic Support 
 
 (a) The Republic of Vanuatu is a Least Developed Country.  It has not in the 
"representative period" 2006-2008 or at an y other time provided product-specific 
support for any agricultural product that accords with the criteria set out in the Agreement on Agriculture. 
 (b) The Government of Vanuatu does provi de a number of general service measures 
mainly through the Ministry of Agricultu re, Quarantine, Forestry, and Fisheries 
(MALQFF).  A number of these measures benefit from technical and financial aid provided to Vanuatu by donor countries.  The aid component in these programmes has been excluded from the figures in th e relevant Supporting Tables wherever 
possible. 
 (c) The Republic of Vanuatu has provided from time to time input subsidies to 
the agriculture and other sectors of the economy.  These programmes are not specific to agriculture.  They are mainly provided  through revenues forgone such as import 
tariff concessions and have therefore not been included in the supporting documents. 
 (d) Salaries and wages make up the major co mponent of the Government of Vanuatu's 
expenditure on domestic support. 
(e) Vanuatu comprises more than 80 is lands and an estimate 80 per cent of 
the population lives in rural areas who se economies predominantly consist of 
subsistence agriculture.  Therefore it is not practicable to calculate separately the cost 
of infrastructure services to the agriculture  sector for the purpose of inclusion in 
Supporting Table DS:1. 
 (f) The value of total agricultural production (including fishing and forestry) in Vanuatu 
amounted to VT 9,956 million in 2006 , VT 10,155 million in 2007, and  
VT 10,538 million in 2008.  The average value of total agricultural production in Vanuatu for the period of 2006 to 2008, in clusive, was VT 10,216 million (all figures 
in 2006 vatu). 
 
2. Export Subsidies   The Republic of Vanuatu does not provide any form of export subsidy.   
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 Page 3Supporting Table DS:1 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Republic of Vanuatu1 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar years 2006-2008 
 
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment -"Green Box" 
 
Measure type Name and description of measure Monetary value of 
measure 
(Million VT) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Research General research including some programmes relating to particular products, and 
including the environment and subsistence agriculture 
 2006 
2007 
2008 Average 2006-2008 
  
 
 
43.96 
26.35 
56.40 42.24 
 Ministry of 
Agriculture, 
Quarantine, Forestry, and Fisheries 
(MALQFF) and the 
Ministry of Finance and Economic 
Management (MFEM) 
Pest and Disease Control Quarantine and eradication, pe st and disease control, in spection services including 
at ports and airports and gr ading and standards services 
 
2006 
2007 2008 
Average 2006-2008 
  
  
56.39 
82.17 76.37 
71.64  
Extension Extension and advisory services including the transfer of information and results 
of Government and foreign aid funded research 
 2006 
2007 
2008 
Average 2006-2008  
 
 
36.43 
27.86 
29.75 
31.35  
                                                      
1 This schedule is valid in English only.  
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Page 4 Measure type Name and description of measure Monetary value of 
measure 
(Million VT) Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Total  Total monetary value of "Green Box" support in 
 
2006 
2007 2008 
Average 2006-2008  
 
136.60 
136.20 162.40 
145.07  
 
  
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 Page 5Supporting Tables DS:2 to DS:9 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT:  Republic of Vanuatu 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar years 2006 - 2008 
 
Measure type Name and description of measure Monetary value of 
measure Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Domestic Support Programmes 
 Measures Exempt from the Reduction Commitment – Special and Differential 
Treatment – Development Programmes:  Supporting Table DS:2 
2006 2007 
2008 
 Measures Exempt from the Reduction Co mmitment – Direct Payments under 
Production-Limiting Programmes – Exempt Direct Payments:  Supporting Table DS:3 
2006 2007 
2008 
 
Calculation of the Total Aggregate Measurement of Support:  Supporting Table DS:4 
2006 2007 
2008 
 Product-Specific Aggr egate Measurement of Suppor t:  Market Price Support:  
Supporting Table DS:5 
2006 2007 
2008 
Product-Specific Aggregate M easurement of Support:  Non-Exempt Direct Payments:  
Supporting Table DS:6 
2006 2007 
2008
   
NIL NIL 
NIL 
  
 
NIL NIL 
NIL 
 
 
NIL NIL 
NIL 
  
 
NIL NIL 
NIL 
  
 
NIL NIL 
NIL Ministry of Agriculture, 
Quarantine, Forestry, and 
Fisheries (MALQFF) and the Ministry of Finance and 
Economic Management 
(MFEM)   
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Page 6 Measure type Name and description of measure Monetary value of 
measure Data source 
1 2 3 4 
 
 Product-Specific Aggreg ate Measurement of Support:  Other Product-Specific Support 
and Total Product-Specific AMS:  Supporting Table DS:7 2006 
2007 
2008  
Product-Specific Equivalent Measurements  of Support:  Supporting Table DS:8 
2006 2007 
2008 
 Non-Product-Specific AMS:  Supporting Table DS:9 
2006 
2007 2008  
 
NIL 
NIL 
NIL 
 
 
NIL NIL 
NIL 
  
NIL 
NIL NIL   
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 Page 7Supporting Table ES:1 
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Republic of Vanuatu 
REPORTING PERIOD:  Calendar years 2006 - 2008  
 
Export Subsidies:  Outlay and Quantity  
 
Measure type Name and description of measure Monetary value of 
measure Data source 
1 2 3 4 
Subsidies on Exports Vanuatu did not provide Export subsidies of any kind in the period 2006-2008 NIL Ministry of Agriculture, 
Quarantine, Forestry, and Fisheries (MALQFF) and 
the Ministry of Finance and 
Economic Management (MFEM) 
  
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Page 8 Part IV: Agricultural Products:  Commitments Limiting Subsidization  
(Article 3 of the Agreement on Agriculture) 
 
Section I -Domestic Support:  Total AMS Commitments 
 
Base Total AMS Annual and Final bound commitment levels Relevant Supporting Tables and document reference 
1 2 3 
Vanuatu has no programmes or policies that are 
subject to reduction commitments within the 
meaning of Article 6 of the Agreement on 
Agriculture. NIL Supporting Tables DS:1 to DS:9 
 
 
Section II Export Subsidies:  Budgetary Ou tlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments 
 
Description of product and 
tariff at HS six digit level Base outlay level Calendar/ 
other year 
applied Annual and final 
commitment Base 
quantity Calendar/ 
other year 
applied Annual and 
final 
commitment Relevant 
Supporting 
Tables 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL ES:1 
 
 
 
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