GATT/AIR/UNNUMBERED

GATT/AIR/UNNUMBERED 2 DECEMBER 1991

SUBJECT: INTERNATIONAL DAIRY ARRANGEMENT - INVENTORY OF MEASURES

AFFECTING TRADE IN DAIRY PRODUCTS

1. ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF PROCEDURE, THE SECRETARIAT SHALL ESTABLISH AND KEEP UP TO DATE AN INVENTORY OF ALL MEASURES AFFECTING TRADE IN

DAIRY PRODUCTS. A FULL TEXT OF THE INVENTORY SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO PARTICIPANTS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH THREE-YEAR PERIOD (RULE 29). THE ARRANGEMENT IS ENTERING INTO ITS FIFTH THREE-YEAR PERIOD IN JANUARY 1992.

2. INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED UNDER ARTICLE III OF THE ARRANGEMENT SHALL BE COMMUNICATED ON THE BASIS OF QUESTIONNAIRES (RULE 23). IT IS SUGGESTED THAT PARTICIPANTS ONCE MORE USE QUESTIONNAIRE 5 - REGARDING INFORMATION ON

..... DOMESTIC POLICIES AND TRADE MEASURES, ADOPTED IN 1980 (ANNEXED).

3. THE STATUS OF THE INVENTORY, AS OF THE END OF 1991, WILL BE ISSUED

IN DOCUMENT DPC/INV/4/REV.7. THE SECRETARIAT INTENDS TO ESTABLISH A COMPLETELY REVISED INVENTORY OF MEASURES AFFECTING TRADE IN DAIRY PRODUCTS AND CIRCULATE IT AS DOCUMENT DPC/INV/5 AND ADDENDA EARLY IN 1992. FOR THIS REASON THE SECRETARIAT WOULD APPRECIATE RECEIVING ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION BY 31 JANUARY 1992.

A. DUNKEL

QUESTIONNAIRE 5

International Dairy Arrangement

INTERNATIONAL DAIRY PRODUCTS COUNCIL

Questionnaire Regarding Information on Domestic Policies

and Trade Measures

The list below is a guide to the information in domestic policies and trade measures that the participants should provide to the International Dairy Products Council in accordance with Article III:3 of the Arrangement.

An introductory note could describe the general policy of which dairy policy is a component, and might give any other general information that participants consider relevant and in particular factors which affect current and likely future production.

A. Production

1. Support and/or stabilization measures:

(a) Inventory of the instruments of support and/or stabilization;

(b) Levels of guaranteed prices or support prices;

(d) Average returns to producers, including methods of determining those returns and constituent elements thereof.

2. Policies and measures of governments or other bodies likely to influence production, other than those listed under 1.

B. Internal prices and consumption

1. Representative retail and wholesale prices on major domestic

markets.

2. Factors which condition the evolution and level of internal

consumption.

3. Policies and measures and comments on their effects on

consumption.

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C. Measures at the frontier

1. Customs tariff.

2. Import measures at tariff line level¹, such as duties (statutory, bound, actually applied), variable levies, other special charges, quantitative restrictions, minimum prices, State trading², etc.

3. Export measures at tariff line level¹, such as: subsidies, refunds, equalization, price pooling, levies and charges, restrictions, etc.

4. Description of internal regulations and of agreements governing inclusion of products in tariff headings or sub-headings (for example product classification rules, quota allocation, observance of minimum prices or price ratios, specific sanitary regulations, etc.).

5. As far as possible, description of reasons and circumstances why these frontier measures were instituted and reasons for any changes thereof.

D. Text or description of bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral

agreements

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1_{Depending on the measures, amounts (tariffs, levies, for example) or volumes (e.g. quotas) should be indicated.}

2In case it has an effect on the imports.