NOTIFICATION
The following submission, dated 26 February 2025, is being circulated at the request of
the delegation of Australia. The notification
concerns total exports (Table ES:2)
in the context of export subsidy commitments for the Calendar Year 2023.
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Australia eliminated its export subsidy
entitlements in 2017 (refer to the modification to Section II, Part IV of
Schedule I of Australia certified via _WT/LeT/1262
effective 22 May 2017).
Total exports for the following commodities
are provided in the attached Table ES:2:
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Products for which
Australia is designated a "significant exporter" as per _G/AG/2/Add.1
- wheat and wheat flour, sugar, bovine meat, sheep meat and cotton; and as per _G/AG/W/123
- butter and butter oil, skim milk powder, cheese, other milk products, live
animals and wine.
Table ES:2
EXPORT
SUBSIDIES: Australia
REPORTING PERIOD: Calendar
Year 2023
Export
Subsidies: Notification of Total Exports
|
Description
of products
|
Reporting
Year
|
Quantity
of total exports
(for products from Part IV Section II of the Schedule)
|
Quantity
of total exports
(for products from the list of Significant Exporters)
|
Note
|
|
|
Product
disaggregation (Optional)
|
Type
|
From
|
To
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
|
|
I.
Products from the Schedule
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
II.
Products from the list of significant exporters _G/AG/2/Add.1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wheat and wheat flour
|
1001: 29,267,627
tonnes
1101: 17,051 tonnes
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
29,284,678 tonnes
|
(1)
|
|
Sugar
|
1701: 3,225,740 tonnes
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
3,225,740 tonnes
|
(2)
|
|
Bovine meat
|
0201: 266,511 tonnes
0202: 904,264 tonnes
021020: 41 tonnes
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
1,170,815 tonnes
|
(3)
|
|
Sheepmeat
|
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
569,548 tonnes
|
(4)
|
|
Cotton
|
5201: 1,310,390 tonnes
5203: 182 tonnes
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
1,310,572 tonnes
|
(5)
|
|
|
|
III.
Additional products with a share exceeding 5% of total world exports
(Optional)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Butter and butter oil
|
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
9,396 tonnes
|
(6)
|
|
Cheese
|
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
129,351 tonnes
|
(7)
|
|
Skim milk powder
|
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
133,433 tonnes
|
(8)
|
|
Other milk products
|
0401: 207,469 tonnes
0402 (exl 040210):
82,739 tonnes
0404: 37,081 tonnes
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
348,495 tonnes
|
(9)
|
|
Live animals
|
0102: 625,547 head
0104: 698,618 head
0106: 770,382 head
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
2,457,186 head
|
(10)
|
|
Wine
|
2204: 620,923,032
litres
2205: 485,054 litres
|
CY
|
01-01-23
|
31-12-23
|
|
621,408,086 litres
|
(11)
|
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
(1) Wheat and wheat flour includes exports
under 1001 and 1101 of the Harmonized System.
(2) Sugar includes exports under 1701 of the Harmonized System.
(3) Bovine meat includes exports under 0201, 0202 and 021020 of
the Harmonized System.
(4) Sheep meat includes exports under 0204 (excluding 020450
Goat meat) of the Harmonized System.
(5) Cotton includes exports under 5201 and 5203 of the
Harmonized System.
(6) Butter and butter oil includes exports under 0405 of the
Harmonized System.
(7) Cheese includes exports under 0406 of the Harmonized
System.
(8) Skim milk powder includes exports under 040210 of the
Harmonized System.
(9) Other
milk products includes exports under 0401, 0402 (excluding 040210), 0403, 0404,
170211, 170219, 350110 and 350190 of the Harmonized System, of which export
volumes of the top three are provided (0401, 0402 (excl 040221), 0404), which
account for 94% of Other milk product exports. 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 is based on the ratio set out in
Table 19, p. 28, Weights, Measures, and Conversion Factors for
Agricultural Commodities and Their Products (1992), Economic Research Service
in cooperation with the Agricultural Marketing Service, the Agricultural
Research Service, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, US
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Handbook No 697.
(10) Live animals includes all exports under 0101 to 0106
(excluding 0103) of the Harmonized System of which 0102, 0104 and 0106 account
for the largest share by volume. Measured as number of animals, not tonnes.
Figures for 0102 do not include exports under 01022114 and 01023100 (Live
pure-bred breeding beef and buffalo) due to confidentiality restrictions.
(11) Wine includes exports under 2204 and 2205 of the Harmonized
System.
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