WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/AG/N/NZL/16
5 November 1998
(98-4328)
Committee on Agriculture Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The attached notification concerning export subsidy commitments ( Tables ES:1 and ES:2
(provisional) and the relevant Supporting Table) for the fourth year of implementation (1997/98) was
received from the delegation of New Zealand on 23 October 1998.G/AG/N/NZL/16
Page 2Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  New Zealand          
REPORTING PERIOD:  Year ending June 1998
Export Subsidies:  Budgetary Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments          
Description of products Calendar / marketing year
beginning…Subsidised exports Food aid Annual commitment levels
Outlays
$NZ millionQuantity1Quantity Outlays
$NZ millionQuantity1
(from Section II of Part IV) (from Section II of Part
IV)(from Section II of Part IV)
12 3 4 5 6 7
1995 0.016 NA 0 213.57 NA
1996 0 NA 0 199.94 NA
1997 0 NA 0 186.31 NAAll products described in Annex 1 of the
Agreement on Agriculture
1998 0 NA 0 172.68 NA
Explanatory Notes:
1NA = Not applicable.  New Zealand did not make any export subsidy quantity reduction commitments, except for the year 2000 when  the export subsidy quantity
commitment is nil.G/AG/N/NZL/16
Page 3Supporting Table ES:1
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  New Zealand          
REPORTING PERIOD:  Year ending June 1998          
Export Subsidies: Outlay and Quantity Reduction Commitments
Description of products Direct
export
subsidies
$NZ millionSales of
stocksProducer
financed
subsidiesCost reduction
measuresInternal
transport
subsidiesTotal product
specific
export
subsidies
$NZ millionQuantity of
subsidised
exports1Data source
12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
All products described inAnnex 1 of the Agreement
on Agriculture0 0 0 0 0 0 NA Estimates of
Appropriations for the
Government of
New Zealand
Explanatory notes:
1NA = Not applicable (refer to ex planatory note of Table ES:1).G/AG/N/NZL/16
Page 4Table ES:2
EXPORT SUBSIDIES:  New Zealand          
REPORTING PERIOD:  Year ending June 1998
Export Subsidies:  Notification of Total Exports          
Description of products Year ending June 1998Quantity of total exports2
(thousand tonnes)
12 3
Butter and butteroil 315.8
Skim milk powder 165.9
Cheese 232.4
Other milk products1343.0
Bovine meat 362.5
Sheepmeat 351.8
Explanatory notes:
1  Includes whole milk powder, condensed and evaporated milk.
2  Figures are provisional.
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