G/AG/N/ARG/44  
4 September  2019 
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Committee on Agriculture  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following communication, dated 16 August 2019, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Argentina . The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS .1 
and the relevant supporting tables) for the  agricultural year  from  1 December 2015 to 
30 November 2016 . 
 
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Table  DS.1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: AR GENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL  YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2015 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2016  
Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level  Currency  Current total AMS  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Sche dule) (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from attached Supporting Tables)  
1 2 3 
75,021,292.38 1992 pesos  73,915,882 
 
    
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Supporting Table  DS.1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: AR GENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2015 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2016  
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box "  
Measure Type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in 
Annex 2  Monetary value   
 
(1992  pesos ) Data Source  Note  
1 2 3 4  
2. General Services      
2 (a) Research  Special Fund for Tobacco: Development of new technologies for production 
in Jujuy and Salta.  396,054 SSA (MINAGRO)   
INTA:  Basic research and technological innovation programme . 46,035,901 INTA (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  46,431,955   
2 (b) Pest and disease control  National Agriculture and Food Quality Service:  Plant protection.  22,378,069 SENASA   
 Agriculture and food safety and quality (formerly Agriculture and food 
control):  Agro-chemicals, veterinary products and food (formerly Approval 
of agro-chemicals and pharmacological products) . Laboratory services.  15,293,850 SENASA   
 Animal health.  6,689,073 SENASA   
 Subtotal  44,360,993 SSA (MINAGRO)   
2 (c) Training services  Special Fund for Tobacco:  Training of technical specialists and producers.  636,580   
 Subtotal  636,580   
2 (d) Extension and advisory services  Special Fund for Tobacco:  Advice and technical assistance for producers for 
activities related to diversification, conversion and modernization.  186,567 SSA (MINAGRO)   
INTA: Applied Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer (IAITT) 
programme . This includes the Federal Support Programme for Sustainable 
Rural Development, PROFEDER  (with the following strategies: Rural 
Change, ProFam (family producer groups), Smallholdings ( Minifundio ), 
ProHuerta (food security), Integrated Projects and Local Development 
Projects), which is geared towards the management of innovation 
processes in re lation to research, education and technology transfer.  208,480,646 INTA (MINAGRO)   
Agricultural Bio -Input Development Programme: Advice and technical 
assistance to facilitate the use of bio -inputs by agricultural producers . 102,702 Directorate of 
Bioenergy  
 (MINAGRO)   
MAGyP : Advice and technical assistance to increase the adaptability and 
resilience of small agricultural family farmers against the impact of climate 
change.  70,210   
Subtotal  208,840,125     
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Measure Type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in 
Annex 2  Monetary value   
 
(1992  pesos ) Data Source  Note  
1 2 3 4  
2 (e) Inspection services  Special Fund for Tobacco:  Administration and monitoring in Catamarca, 
Corrientes, Jujuy and Salta.  1,760,765 SSA (MINAGRO)   
INV: Control of the genuineness of wine products and alcohols . This 
programme ensures technical control of the wine industry and of 
production of and trade in wine products, as well as monitoring of the 
production, circulation, fractionation and marketing of ethyl and methyl 
alcohol, with a view to protecting the community in relation to the 
genuineness of wine products  and alcoholic beverages and their fitness for 
consumption.  21,255,790 INV (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  23,016,556   
2 (g) Infrastructural services  Special Fund for Tobacco:  Installation of an anti -hail rocket system.  1,446,819 SSA (MINAGRO)   
Special Fund for Tobacco:  Civil engineering work and improvement of the 
effluent treatment system in the provinces of Chaco, Misiones, Salta and 
Tucumán.  2,902,930 SSA (MINAGRO)   
Special Fund for Tobacco:  Environmental sanitation.  77,664 SSA (MINAGRO)   
MINAGRO : Rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems in the 
provinces of Catamarca, Córdoba, Chaco, Entre Ríos, Jujuy, Mendoza, 
Neuquén, Salta, San Juan and Misiones . Minor building projects and water - 
and soil -quality studies.  82,784,052 PROSAP (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  87,211,466   
 Subtotal General Services : 387,878,170   
5. Other direct payments to producers  Special Fund for Tobacco:  Support for the purchase of climate risk insurance 
and mandatory life insurance for rural workers . 9,241,101 SSA (MINAGRO)   
 Inclusion and Rural Development Programme:  The programme seeks to 
promote the economic, social, political and cultural integration of family 
farmers, small and medium -sized producers and indigenous communities, 
with due regard to gender and generational equity, and is implemented in 
a framework of cooperation, coordination and complementarity with other 
public rural development policy actors.  19,471,223 MINAGRO   
 Subtotal  28,712,324   
6. Decoupled income support  Special Fund for Tobacco:  Assistance for producers' families to finance 
medical, health, biochemical and dental services (measure benefiting over 
110,000 people).  15,541,123 SSA (MINAGRO)   
Special Fund for Tobacco:  Support for trade association activities.  43,314,378 SSA (MINAGRO)   
Special Fund for Tobacco:  Social welfare for producers in the provinces of 
Catamarca, Corrientes, Salta, Jujuy and Tucumán.  22,167,958 SSA (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  81,023,458   
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Agricultural Emergency Programme, Law No. 26.509: Support for 
producers who suffered damage from flooding, rainfall, hail and other 
adverse climatic phenomena in the provinces of  Formosa, Corrientes, 
Chaco, Córdoba, Buenos Aires, San ta Fe, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Jujuy, 
Catamarca, Mendoza, Río Negro and Neuquén.  28,834,515 MINAGRO   
Special Fund for Tobacco:  Support for producers who suffered damage 
from flooding and rainfall in the provinces of Misiones and Tucumán.  7,205,346 SSA (MINAGRO)   
Subtotal  36,039,862     
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Measure Type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in 
Annex 2  Monetary value   
 
(1992  pesos ) Data Source  Note  
1 2 3 4  
11. Structural adjustment assistance provided through 
investment aids  MAGyP : Technical and financial assistance with a view to mitigating the 
social vulnerability of low -income rural inhabitants and aboriginal 
communities in the provinces of Chaco, Misiones, Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, 
Chubut, Córdoba, Mendoza, Entre Ríos, Santiago del Estero, San Juan, 
Neuquén, Catamarca, La Rioja and Buenos Aires , as well as at national 
level. Support for project management, training activities with a view to 
improving and divers ifying existing farms, and facilitation of technological 
progress in small production units . 39,321,408 PRODAF 
(MINAGRO)/PROICSA 
(MINAGRO)/PRODERI 
(MINAGRO)   
Special Fund for Tobacco:  Assistance for the financial or physical 
restructuring of production activities to remedy objectively demonstrated 
structural disadvantages. Construction of centres, provision of 
supplementary equipment, processing and storage, land improvement, and 
assistance for farm modernization . 135,826,398   
Subtotal  175,147,806   
Total Green Box  731,421,123   
Notes: 
SENASA: National Agriculture and Food Health and Quality Service . 
MINAGRO: Ministry of Agro -Industry . 
SSA: Under -Secretariat for Agriculture . 
INV: National Institute of Vitiviniculture . 
INTA: National Institute of Agricultural Technology . 
 
    
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Supporting Table  DS.4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: AR GENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2015 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2016  
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products (including 
non-product specific AMS)  
 
 Product -specific AMS 
(from Supporting 
Tables  DS:5 to DS:7)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Product -specific 
measurements of 
support (from 
Supporting 
Table  DS:8)  
(1992  pesos ) Total  
(2 + 3)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Value of production  
 
(1992  pesos ) Support as a 
% of value of 
production  
 Current Total AMS  
 
(1992  pesos ) Note  
 
1 2 3    4  
Cotton  10,419,078  10,419,078 161,138,416 6% 0 (de minimis )  
Rice 1,565  1,565 208,359,298 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Poultry meat  82  82 2,084,566,047 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Bovine meat  6,065,241  6,065,241 9,962,773,375 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Goat meat  1,952,410  1,952,410 75,109,766 3% 0 (de minimis )  
Sheep meat  6,469,219  6,469,219 634,768,201 1% 0 (de minimis )  
Swine  meat 353,931  353,931 528,987,352 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Citrus fuit  17,716  17,716 521,848,672 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Milk 32,766,401  32,766,401 1,322,592,314 2% 0 (de minimis )  
Apples  282,020  282,020 109,654,006 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Olives 10,791  10,791 90,235,286 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Pears 282,020  282,020 109,654,006 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Tobacco  73,915,882 73,915,882   73,915,882  
Wheat  389,294  389,294 2,724,658,438 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Wine 191,910  191,910 3,635,456,715 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Maté 97,837  97,837 311,572,449 0% 0 (de minimis )  
Non-product -specific AMS (from Supporting Table DS:9)       
TOTAL  73,915,882  
 
 
    
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Supporting Table  DS.7  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: AR GENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2015 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2016  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Other Product -Specific Support and Total Product -Specific AMS  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure Type s Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 (1992  
pesos ) Other 
product 
specific -
support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
product -
specific 
support 
(4+5 -6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table DS:5)  
 
 
(1992  pesos ) Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table DS:6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Data source  Note 
Type From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Swine  meat AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  353,931   353,931    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Swine  
Meat         353,931   353,931   
Poultry meat  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  82   82    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total 
Poultry 
Meat         82   82   
Bovine meat  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  6,065,241   6,065,241    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Bovine 
Meat         6,065,241   6,065,241     
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Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure Type s Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 (1992  
pesos ) Other 
product 
specific -
support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
product -
specific 
support 
(4+5 -6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table DS:5)  
 
 
(1992  pesos ) Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table DS:6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Data source  Note 
Type From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Milk AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Aid scheme for 
small-scale dairy 
producers  31,042,390   31,042,390    MINAGRO ( Under -
Secretariat for 
Dairy )  
Milk AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  1,724,011   1,724,011    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Milk        32,766,401   32,766,401   
Wheat  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  389,294   389,294    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Wheat         389,294   389,294   
Pears AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  282,020   282,020    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Pe ars        282,020   282,020   
Apples  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  282,020   282,020    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Apples         282,020   282,020     
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Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure Type s Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 (1992  
pesos ) Other 
product 
specific -
support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
product -
specific 
support 
(4+5 -6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table DS:5)  
 
 
(1992  pesos ) Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table DS:6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Data source  Note 
Type From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Wines  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  191,910   191,910    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Wines         191,910   191,910   
Citrus fruit  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  17,716   17,716    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Citr us 
Fruit         17,716   17,716   
Rice AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  1,565   1,565    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Rice        1,565   1,565   
Maté AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  97,837   97,837    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Maté         97,837   97,837   
Olives  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Interest -rate 
subsidy 
programme for 
loans to small -
scale 
agricultural 
producers  10,791   10,791    MINAGRO 
(Directorate of 
Finance )  
Total Oli ves        10,791   10,791     
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Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure Type s Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 (1992  
pesos ) Other 
product 
specific -
support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Associated 
fees/levies  Total other 
product -
specific 
support 
(4+5 -6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Market price 
support 
(Supporting 
Table DS:5)  
 
 
(1992  pesos ) Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(Supporting 
Table DS:6)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Data source  Note 
Type From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Cotton  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Sustainable 
development 
and cotton -
production 
promotion  plan 10,419,078   10,419,078    MINAGRO ( Under -
Secretariat for 
Agriculture )  
Total Cotton         10,419,078   10,419,078   
Sheep meat  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Sheep farming 
recovery 
scheme  6,469,219   6,469,219    MINAGRO ( Under -
Secretariat for 
Livestock )  
Total Sheep 
Meat         6,469,219   6,469,219   
Goat meat  AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Law on the 
recovery, 
promotion and 
development of 
goat farming  1,952,410   1,952,410    MINAGRO ( Under -
Secretariat for 
Livestock )  
Total Goat 
Meat         1,952,410   1,952,410   
 
    
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Supporting Table  DS.8 
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: AR GENTINA  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 1 DECEMBER 2015 TO 30 NOVEMBER 2016  
Product -Specific Equivalent Measurements of Support   
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting period  Measure 
types  Applied 
administered 
price   
 
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Eligible 
production  Market price 
support 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 
 
(1992  pesos ) Equivalent 
measurement 
of support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
 
(1992  pesos ) Non-
exempt 
direct 
payments   
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Other 
product -
specific 
support   
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Associated 
fees/levies   
 
 
 
 
 
(1992  
pesos ) Total 
monetary 
value of 
equivalent 
commitment 
(7+8+9 -10)  
 
(1992  
pesos ) Data Source  Note 
Type From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12  
Tobacco AY 1 
December 
2015 30 
November 
2016 Payment per 
unit 0.79/kg 93,670,000 
kg 73,915,882 73,915,882    73,915,882 Secretariat of 
Agriculture, 
Livestock and 
Fisheries/ 
Annual reports 
of the 
Conversion 
programme for 
tobacco -
growing areas 
(PRAT)   
Total 
Toba cco            73,915,882   
 
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