RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/SCM/Q2/ZAF/1
10October 1996
ORGANIZATION(96-4146)
Original: English Committee onSubsidies andCountervailing Duties
SUBSIDIES
Request from theEUROPEAN COMMUNITY
toSOUTH AFRICA Pursuant toArticle 25.10 oftheAgreement
Thefollowing communication, dated 4October 1996, hasbeenreceived fromthePermanent
Delegation oftheEuropean Commission.
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TheCommunitynotesthatSouthAfricahasnotprovidedanotificationofsubsidiesinaccordance
withArticle 25.2oftheSubsidies Agreement. However, theCommunity haslearned thatSouth Africa
isgranting specific subsidies and,inaccordance withArticle 25.10, would liketobring thismatter
totheattention oftheCommittee.
TheCommunity requests thatthesubsidies described inthenon-exhaustive listbelow, plus
allother specific subsidies granted bySouth Africa, arenotified inaccordance withthestandard WTO
questionnaire onsubsidies, intime forthemeeting oftheWTO Subsidies Committee on23-
24October 1996.
Subsidy programmes
1. TheGeneral Export Incentive Scheme.
2. Export Marketing Assistance Scheme.
3. Lowinterest ratescheme forthepromotion ofexports.
4. Financing fortheexport ofcapital goods andservices.
5. Revised customs dispensation forthemotor industry including animport export credit rebate.
6. Assistance tothesteelproduct exporters intheform offinancing andaprice rebate scheme.
7. TheAgriculturalFinanceAssistanceProgrammewhichprovidesbothcredit(atsubsidizedinterest
rates) aswellasnon-credit support facilities.
8. Preferential electricity andfreight rates.