WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/AG/N/JPN/126 
5 March 2007 
 (07-0910) 
Committee on Agriculture Original:   English 
 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
 
 The following submission, dated 27 February 2007, is being circulated at the request of the Delegation of Japan .  The notification concerns food aid ( Table ES:3 ) for the fiscal years 2003  and 
2004  in the context of export subsidy commitments.  
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Page 2 Table ES:3 
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Japan 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  fiscal year 1 April 2003-31 March 2004 
 
Export Subsidies:  Notification of total volume  of food aid 
 
Quantity of food aid to all destinations Description of products Fiscal year 
beginning 
1 April 2003 Quantity 
(MT) Value * 
(Yen) Destination 
1 2 3 4 5 
Wheat flour 2003/2004 4,620  160,000,000  Maldives 
Wheat 2003/2004 4,874  100,000,000  Mongolia 
Rice 2003/2004 9,700  350,000,000  Nepal 
Rice 2003/2004 4,798  200,000,000  Angola 
Rice 2003/2004 5,134  200,000,000  Benin 
Rice 2003/2004 6,100  300,000,000  Burkina Faso 
Rice 2003/2004 3,691  150,000,000  Cape Verde 
Rice 2003/2004 6,577  300,000,000  Democratic Republic of the Congo 
Rice 2003/2004 3,661  150,000,000  Djibouti 
Wheat 2003/2004 3,304  100,000,000  Eritrea 
Wheat 2003/2004 6,288  200,000,000  Ethiopia Rice 2003/2004 4,903  180,000,000  Gambia Rice 2003/2004 9,435  350,000,000  Guinea Rice 2003/2004 5,996  300,000,000  Mali 
Rice 2003/2004 8,166  300,000,000  Mauritania 
Rice 2003/2004 8,367  300,000,000  Mozambique 
Rice 2003/2004 7,206  350,000,000  Niger 
Rice 2003/2004 3,311  150,000,000  Sao Tome & Principe 
Rice 2003/2004 6,776  250,000,000  Senegal 
Rice 2003/2004 8,801  310,000,000  Tanzania 
Wheat 2003/2004 5,587  200,000,000  Bangladesh (through WFP)  
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 Page 3Quantity of food aid to all destinations Description of products Fiscal year 
beginning 
1 April 2003 Quantity 
(MT) Value * 
(Yen) Destination 
1 2 3 4 5 
Rice 2003/2004 14,936  800,000,000  Cambodia (through WFP) 
Rice 2003/2004 6,599  400,000,000  Laos (through WFP) 
Rice 2003/2004 4,632  200,000,000  Sri Lanka (through WFP) 
Maize, pulse, vegetable oil, salt 2003/2004 4,656  365,000,000  Angola (through WFP) 
Canned tuna 2003/2004 354  200,000,000  Republic of Congo (through WFP) 
Rice 2003/2004 2,381  200,000,000  Côte d'Ivoire (through WFP) 
Beans 2003/2004 1,176  100,000,000  Lesotho (through WFP) 
Vegetable oil 2003/2004 698  100,000,000  Swaziland (through WFP) 
Corn soy blend, vegetable oil, maize 2003/2004 983  100,000,000  Zimbabwe (through WFP) Maize 2003/2004 2,111  100,000,000  Somalia and Sudan in Kenya (through WFP) Rice 2003/2004 2,862  200,000,000  Liberia (through WFP) 
Maize meal, beans 2003/2004 2,574  100,000,000  Malawi (through WFP) 
Sorghum 2003/2004 2,066  100,000,000  Ethiopia and Eritria in Sudan (through WFP) 
Rice 2003/2004 1,567  100,000,000  Uganda (through WFP) 
Maize 2003/2004 1,891  100,000,000  Zambia (through WFP) 
Rice 2003/2004 3,224  199,000,000  Great Lakes (in Burundi, Rwanda, 
Tanzania) (through WFP) 
Rice, vegetable oil, pulse 2003/2004 3,352  300,000,000  Haiti (through WFP) Maize, beans 2003/2004 1,540  100,000,000  Central America (in Nicaragua, Honduras, 
El Salvador, Guatemala) (through WFP) 
Rice, pulse 2003/2004 17,000  1,400,000,000 Iraq (through WFP) 
Wheat flour 2003/2004 2,213  100,000,000  Georgia (through WFP) 
Wheat flour, beans 2003/2004 1,869  100,000,000  Tajikistan (through WFP) 
Wheat flour 2003/2004 14,834  500,000,000  Palestine (through UNRWA) 
     
 
* Value means the CIF or CIP price of food to procure with respect to bilateral food aid, and means total of the FOB price of f ood to procure and costs of transport and 
other operations with respect to food aid through WFP and UNRWA.  
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Page 4  
Table ES:3 
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  Japan 
 
REPORTING PERIOD:  fiscal year 1 April 2004-31 March 2005 
 
Export Subsidies:  Notification of total volume  of food aid 
Quantity of food aid to all destinations Description of products Fiscal year 
beginning 
1 April 2004 Quantity 
(MT) Value * 
(Yen) Destination 
1 2 3 4 5 
Rice 2004/2005 7,942  300,000,000  Lao 
Wheat flour 2004/2005 5,988  200,000,000  Maldives 
Wheat 2004/2005 9,730  200,000,000  Mongolia 
Rice 2004/2005 8,283  350,000,000  Nepal 
Rice 2004/2005 4,598  250,000,000  Angola 
Rice 2004/2005 4,474  200,000,000  Benin 
Rice 2004/2005 5,510  300,000,000  Burkina Faso 
Rice 2004/2005 2,900  150,000,000  Cape Verde 
Rice 2004/2005 3,394  150,000,000  Djibouti 
Wheat 2004/2005 3,558  100,000,000  Eritrea 
Wheat 2004/2005 6,819  200,000,000  Ethiopia Rice 2004/2005 3,814  180,000,000  Gambia Rice 2004/2005 7,561  350,000,000  Guinea Rice 2004/2005 4,715  200,000,000  Madagascar 
Rice 2004/2005 5,316  300,000,000  Mali 
Rice 2004/2005 7,748  300,000,000  Mauritania 
Rice 2004/2005 6,396  350,000,000  Niger 
Rice 2004/2005 5,652  250,000,000  Senegal 
Rice 2004/2005 7,703  300,000,000  Tanzania 
Rice 2004/2005 12,528  550,000,000  Bangladesh (through WFP) 
Biscuit, fortified noodle 2004/2005 1,400  150,000,000  Indonesia (through WFP)  
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 Page 5Quantity of food aid to all destinations Description of products Fiscal year 
beginning 
1 April 2004 Quantity 
(MT) Value * 
(Yen) Destination 
1 2 3 4 5 
Rice 2004/2005 3,175  200,000,000  Sri Lanka (through WFP) 
Rice 2004/2005 2,300  200,000,000  Côte d'Ivoire (through WFP) 
Rice 2004/2005 3,703  300,000,000  Democratic Republic of the Congo (through 
WFP) 
Rice 2004/2005 2,218  200,000,000  Republic of Congo (through WFP) 
Rice 2004/2005 3,644  200,000,000  Kenya (through WFP) 
Maize meal 2004/2005 1,798  100,000,000  Lesotho (through WFP) 
Wheat 2004/2005 2,423  200,000,000  Liberia (through WFP) 
Pulse 2004/2005 1,320  100,000,000  Malawi (through WFP) Rice, canned tuna 2004/2005 3,150  300,000,000  Mozambique(through WFP) Sorghum 2004/2005 7,728  660,000,000  Sudan (through WFP) 
Maize meal 2004/2005 1,772  100,000,000  Swaziland (through WFP) 
Rice 2004/2005 3,270  200,000,000  Uganda (through WFP) 
Maize, corn soy blend 2004/2005 2,029  100,000,000  Zambia (through WFP) 
Rice, canned tuna 2004/2005 3,431  320,000,000  Great Lakes (in Burundi, Rwanda) (through 
WFP) 
Rice, maize, CSB, sorghum/millet 2004/2005 3,476  224,000,000  Côte d'Ivoire Regional (in Mali, Ghana, 
Burkina Faso) (through WFP) 
Bulgur wheat 2004/2005 3,930  310,000,000  West Africa Coastal (in Sierra Leone, 
Guinea) (through WFP) 
Rice 2004/2005 3,490  300,000,000  Haiti (through WFP) 
Maize, beans 2004/2005 6,266  250,000,000  Central America (in Nicaragua, Honduras, 
El Salvador, Guatemala) (through WFP) 
Wheat flour 2004/2005 2,594  100,000,000  Georgia (through WFP) 
Wheat flour 2004/2005 2,214  100,000,000  Tajikistan (through WFP)  
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Page 6 Quantity of food aid to all destinations Description of products Fiscal year 
beginning 
1 April 2004 Quantity 
(MT) Value * 
(Yen) Destination 
1 2 3 4 5 
Wheat flour 2004/2005 4,659  150,000,000  Palestine (through WFP) 
Wheat flour, pulse 2004/2005 10,147  500,000,000  Palestine (through UNRWA) 
     
 
* Value means the CIF or CIP price of food to procure with respect  to bilateral food aid, and means total of the FOB price of f ood to procure and costs of transport and 
other operations with respect to food aid through WFP and UNRWA. 
 
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