RESTRICTED  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/SPEC/VUT/6/Rev.1 
7 February 2001 
 (01-0601) 
Working Party on the  
Accession of Vanuatu Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF VANUATU  
 
Domestic Support and Export Subsidies in Agriculture  
 
Revision  
  The Government of the Republic of Vanuatu has submitted the following revised information 
on domestic support and export subsidies in agriculture , with the request that it be circulated to 
members of the Working Party. 
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Page 2 Republic of Vanuatu  
 
Explanatory Notes:  Supporting  Tables DS:1-9 and ES:1  
 1. Domestic Support  
(a) The Republic of Vanuatu is a Least Deve loped Country. It has not in the “representative period” 1994-96 or at any other tim e provided product 
specific support for any agricultural product that accords w ith the criteria set out in the Agreement on Agriculture. 
(b) The Government of Vanuatu does provide a number of general service measures mainly through the Ministry of Agriculture, Liv estock, Fisheries 
and Forests. A number of these measures benefit from technical and financial aid provided to Vanuatu by donor countries. The ai d component in 
these programmes has been excluded from the figures in  the relevant Supporting Tables where 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 ar e mainly provided through revenues forgone such as import tariff concessions have ther efore not been 
included in the supporting documents. 
(d) Salaries and wages make up the major component of the G overnment of Vanuatu’s expend iture on domestic support.   
(e) Vanuatu comprises some 80 islands and more than three quarters of the population live in rural areas, a large part of which  is based on 
subsistence agriculture. Therefore it is not practicable to calcu late separately the cost of in frastructure services to the agr iculture sector for the 
purpose of inclusion in Supporting Document DS:1.        
 
2. Export Subsidies   The Republic of Vanuatu does not and has not  provided any form of export subsidy.  
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 Page 3Supporting Table DS: 1                              
SCHEDULE - REPUBLIC OF VANUATU1 
 
Domestic Support  
Reporting Period 1994 - 1996  
Measures exempt from reduc tion commitment -“Green Box”  
 
Measure Type  Name and description of measure Monetary Value 
of Measure  Data Source  
1 2 3 4 
 
Research  
 
    
Pest and Disease Control 
     
 
Extension  
General research including some pr ogrammes relating to particular 
products, and including the environm ent and subsistence agriculture 
1994 
1995 1996 Average  1994-96  
Quarantine and eradication, pest and disease control, inspection services 
including at ports and airports and grading and standards services 1994 1995 1996 Average  1994-96 
 
Extension and advisory services including the transfer of information and results of Government and foreign aid funded research 1994 1995 
1996 
Average  1994-96   
  
VT 22.9 m. 
VT 30.1 m. VT 43.0 m. VT 32.0 m.   
 
 VT 20.6 m. VT 27.1 m. VT 38.7 m. VT 28.8 m. 
 
  VT 21.7 m. VT 28.6 m. 
VT 40.9 m. 
VT 30.4 m    
Ministry of Agriculture, 
Livestock, Fisheries 
and Forests and the Ministry of Finance 
                                                      
1 This schedule is valid in English only.  WT/ACC/SPEC/VUT/6/Rev.1 
Page 4 Measure Type  Name and description of measure Monetary Value 
of Measure  Data Source  
1 2 3 4 
  
Total Value of Agricultural production 1994 1995 1996 
Average  1994-96 
  
 VT 5,844 m. VT 6,683 m. VT 6,958 m. 
VT 6,495 m. 
  
 
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 Page 5Supporting Table DS: 1                              
SCHEDULE - REPUBLIC OF VANUATU2 
 
Domestic Support  
Reporting Period 1994 - 1996  
Measures exempt from reduc tion commitment -“Green Box”  
 
Measure Type  Name and description of measure Monetary Value 
of Measure  Data Source  
1 2 3 4 
 
Research  
 
    
Pest and Disease Control 
     
 
Extension  
General research including some pr ogrammes relating to particular 
products, and including the environm ent and subsistence agriculture 
1994 
1995 1996 Average  1994-96  
Quarantine and eradication, pest and disease control, inspection services 
including at ports and airports and grading and standards services 1994 1995 1996 Average  1994-96 
 
Extension and advisory services including the transfer of information and results of Government and foreign aid funded research 1994 1995 
1996 
Average  1994-96   
  
VT 22.9 m. 
VT 30.1 m. VT 43.0 m. VT 32.0 m.   
 
 VT 20.6 m. VT 27.1 m. VT 38.7 m. VT 28.8 m. 
 
  VT 21.7 m. VT 28.6 m. 
VT 40.9 m. 
VT 30.4 m    
Ministry of Agriculture, 
Livestock, Fisheries 
and Forests and the Ministry of Finance 
                                                      
2 This schedule is valid in English only.  WT/ACC/SPEC/VUT/6/Rev.1 
Page 6 Measure Type  Name and description of measure Monetary Value 
of Measure  Data Source  
1 2 3 4 
  
Total Value of Agricultural production 1994 1995 1996 
Average  1994-96 
  
 VT 5,844 m. VT 6,683 m. VT 6,958 m. 
VT 6,495 m. 
  
 
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 Page 7Supporting Tables DS: 2 - 9                              
Domestic Support  
Reporting Period 1994 - 1996  
 
Measure Type  Name and description of measure Monetary 
Value of 
Measure  Data Source  
1 2 3 4 
 
Domestic Support Programmes   
 
    
 
     
  
Measures Exempt from Reduction Commitment-Specula and Differential Treatment - Development programmes:   Supporting Table  DS:2 1994 1995 
1996 
 Measures Exempt from Reduction Commitments - Direct Payments under Production Limiting Programmes - Exempt  Direct Payments:  Supporting 
Table  DS:3 
1994 
1995 1996  Calculation  Of Total Aggregate Measurement of Support:  Supporting Table  DS:4 
1994 
1995 1996  Product- Specific Aggregate Measures of Support: Market Price Supporting 
Table  DS:5 
1994 1995 1996   
  
NIL NIL 
NIL 
   
NIL 
NIL 
NIL 
    
NIL 
NIL NIL 
  
 
NIL NIL NIL  
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Forestry and the Ministry of Finance  WT/ACC/SPEC/VUT/6/Rev.1 
Page 8 Measure Type  Name and description of measure Monetary 
Value of 
Measure  Data Source  
1 2 3 4 
 
Domestic Support Programmes   
Product Specific Aggregate Measurement  of Support: Non-Exempt Direct 
Payments:  Supporting Table DS:6 1994 
1995 
1996   
  
NIL 
NIL 
NIL 
  
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Forestry and the 
Ministry of Finance 
 
 Product-Specific Aggregate Measurement of Support:  Other Product-Specific 
Support and Total Product-Specific AMS: Supporting Table  DS:7 1994 1995 1996 
 
Product-Specific Equivalent Measurement of Support:  Supporting Table DS:8 1994 1995 1996 
 
Non-Product-Specific AMS:  Supporting Table  DS:9 1994 1995 1996 
  
 
NIL NIL NIL 
 
 
NIL NIL NIL 
 
 
NIL NIL NIL 
  
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 Page 9 
 
Supporting Table ES:1 
Export Subsidies  
Reporting Period 1994 - 1996  
 
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 1994-96  
          NIL  
 Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, 
Fisheries and Forests 
and the Ministry of Finance  
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Page 10 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 Fina l 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 Outlay 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 
commitmentRelevant  
Supporting  
Tables  
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
        
NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL ES:1 
 
 
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