GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE RESTRICTED ^m%o Limited Distribution Committee II ~ Expansion of Trade Original: English FIRST ROUND OE AGRICULTURAL CONSULTATIONS BRAZIL Commodity Information Attached for the information of the Committee Is the reply of the Government of Brazil to the questionnaire in Annex B to document COM.II/5.
COM.II/79 Pago 2 Commodity Inform"tion MILK AND D/-IRY PRODUCTS (l)-(2) - Definition of Products» measures Definition of Products Item no. rate ad valorem 04.01 Milk,fresh, not concentrated, sterilised or not 04.02 Milk, partly dehydrated 50$ 04*03 Milk,completely dehydrated, in powder or dried, full cream or unskimmed 50$ 003 and 004 - Modified milk for infants food, acidified or not 20$ others 04.04 Milkj completely dehydrated, in 04.05 Milk cream 04.06 Cheese 04.07 Butter tablets or comprimes 50$ (3) - Non- measures - Import licence is required according to conditions described in document COM,11/73 - Item VI (4) - Quantitative restrictions - No
con.ii/79 Page 3 (5) Exchange practices - only the general ones described in Item II DOC. COM. 11/73 (6)-(9)- No (10) - Statistical Information on Milk - Condensed Milk - Powder Milk, Butter and Cheese Table I MEAT (l)-(2)- Definition of Products - measures Item no. Definition of Products rate ad yalnrem f2-01 02.02 02.03 02.05 02.06 02.07 02.08 Meat, fresh or chilled 005 - of horses 007 - of turkeys others Meat frozen 005 - of horses others Viscera, meat offals and «ther edible parts, fresh, chilled or frozen Unrendered pig fat free of lean meat and unrendered poultry fat 001 - Fresh or chilled 002 - Salted or in brine 003 - Smoked Pig meat, cooked, smoked, in brine t salted, dried or similarly treated Other meat, cooked, smoked, in brine, salted, dried or similarly treated Viscera, meat offals and other edible parts, smoked, salted, dried 60$ 9 2$ 50$ SOfo 50$ 60$ fi3 60% 6056 60$ 60$
COM.II/79 Pago 4 (3) (4) (5) (6)-<9) (10) Non- measures - Import Licence is required according to conditions described on Item VI - DOC.COM.I1/73 Quantitative restrictions Exchange practices - No other than the general one described in Item II - DOC«COM,I1/73 No Statistical Information on total products - export and import of meat - Table II No CEREALS (D-(2> - Definition of Products ' measures Item no. Definition of Products rate ad valorem 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06. 10.07 Wheat, including spelt, in the grain or husked, or mixed with rye Rye: Barley: Oats: Rice: 001 - In the grain, unhusked 002 - Husked of ground 001 - In the grain, unhusked 002 - Husked or ground 001 - In the grain, unhusked 002 - Husked or ground 001 - In the grain, unhusked 002 - Husked or ground, including broken rice Maiza: 001 - In the ear 002 - In the grain, unhusked 003 - Ground or for hominy grits Alpist: 001 - Alpist and millet 002 - Mixtures for feeding birds 50$ 30% l5 i 5Of 0 50fc 50fo 30$ 50$ 60% 100%
COM. n/79 Page 5 Item no. 10.03 Others Definition of Products rate ad valorem - For as long as the national production of wheat is insuficient to cover home-requirements the supplementary quantity shall be imported free of duty. (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (ÔM9Î (10) Non- measures: Wheat production and import are subject to special control, which are described in Item II - 3 and Item III-A of Doc. COM.11/73 The other cereals are not subject to regu Quantitative restrictions _ lations, others than the general ones. No Exchange practices - Only wheat and wheat flour are imported under a favorabel exchange rate. Item II- State Trading - Only 3 the of purchase Doc.COM.11/73 of foreign wheat and wheat flour is done by the Federal Government., as it is mentioned in the Doc.COM.Il/73-Item V. Subsidies on domestic production - No Statistical Information - Wheat producers have a price stablished by the Government (See Doc.COM.11/ 73-Item III). The other cereals have a minimum prices fixed yearly by the Government. However, the prices in the market have always been above these minimum prices (Doc.COM. 11/73 - Item II-I and II) Related to production - Exports and imports of wheat, corn, cevada, rice, oat, centeio - Table III -
COM.ii/79 Page 6 SUGAR (l)-(2) - Definition of Products measures Item no. Definition of Products rate ad valorem 17.01 17.02 Common sugar (saccharose) in any form Other sugars not elsewhere specified or included, even if in the form of nonaromatised and uncoloured syrup: 001 galactose 002 glucose 003 lactose 004 laevulose (fructose) 005 maltose 006 others 60$ ZQffo 50/o 60?o 60% (3) (4)-(6) (7) - (d)-(9) (10) - Non- measures - The production and the prices of the. sugar are subject to special control; Descriptions are provided in the Doc, COM.11/73-Item 11-83 - No - Subsidies on domestic production - - No The sugar price is fixed by the Institute. (See Doc.COM. Il/73-Item IIIA) Statistical Information on production - Exports and Imports - Table IV VEGETABLE SEEDS AND OILS (l)-(2) - Definition of.products - measures
COM,LL/79 Pago? VEGETABLES SEEDS AND OILS Definition of products Item no. rate ad valorem 12,01 Oilseeds and oleaginous fruit, whole or broken 006 -Inedible coconut and jubea*,babas_ su. copra and others 30$ 010 -Flax(linseed) 20% 012 -Mostard 20$ 014 -Perilla 12$ all the others 4G% 12.02 Flour of oilseeds and of oleaginous fruit 15.11 Fixed fats and oils of vegetable origin, crude * 014*-of olives 30$ 005 -of coconuts 100% -others 60$ 0 15.12 Fixed fats and oils of vegetable origin, refined, deodourized or not? 014 -of olives 50% 005 -of coconuts.120% -others 80% 15.13 Mixed oils, mixed oils and fats, mixed fats;prepared fats 100% 15.23 Oils and fats, hydrogenated only 80% 15.24 Margarine.100% (3)-(4) - No special measures beside those described in the Doc.COM.11/73. (5) - Exchange Practices - Castorseeds are subject to an exchange rate of Cr lc0,00 for US$ 1.00, while the other products have the rate of the free market. (8}-(9) - No
COM. n/79 Pago 8 (10) Statistical Information on production - exports and imports - Table V and VI and VII FISH (l)-(2) - Definition of Products - measures Item no, Definition of Products rate ad valorem 03,02 03,03 Dead fish, fresh or chilled 60$ Fish, smoked, in brine, salted and/or dried, pressed, whole or not, including slightly salted fisch 004 - Cod 15$ - others 60$ (3)-(9) - No special measures (10) - Statistics on production and imports - Table VIII
TABLE I COM.11/79 p &S e 9 DAIRY PRODUCTS YpAY. Domestic Exports Imports r P f ons^ion ( tons ) Milk 2.511.000 1954 3.440.737 3i.673.087 3.909.013 4.060.759 4.241.154 Condensed 1941 166 Milk 1954 20.564 20.353.^ 24.912 15.906 19.010 Powder milk 1941 913 2.130 1954 18.059 4.202 10.045 11.332 21.609 11.995 26,021 6.723 28,741 3.480....V Butter 21.000 1954 24.103 28,037 28.190 _ 102 26*981 _ 6 30.378 _ I..889......... *. Cheese 40.000 1954 32.047 3.039 33.846 34c194 40.767
CCM. 11/79 Pago 10 TABLE II MEAT (*) Year Domestic Production OOtt) tons Exports 000 tons Imports 000 tons 673 1.003 1.181 1.272 1.373 1.505 36,6 44,8 4,4 10,9 28,8 43,2 64,7 (*) Production from slaughtered animals: beef, veal, pork, mutton and lamb = 0,3 0,9 0,2
TABLE III COM.11/79 Pago 11 CLREALS Year Domestic Prduction 000 tons Exports 000 tons Imports 000 tons Wheat 195a 160 143 1.107 I.296 781 589 450 869 990 1.855 1.497 1.475 1.550 1.359 Corn 4.754 5.656 6 c 999 7 c 707 7 c 763 7.370 7*735 1 to 4 10 Barley (#) (*) Imports 193 4-3 8 195a includ malt 8 12 35 30 29 25 36 4 20),2 56 55 48 58 Rice 810 1,305 3,737 3 c 489 4.151 3,829 4.176 6 54 3 102 1 52 10 20 Oats Rye 9 13 16 19 16 16 18 19 15 20 20 19 20 20 0,5 1 9 11 13 16
COM. n/79 Pago 12 TABLE IV SUGAR ïear 1934-30 195a Proïuctîon 000 tons 40 1.031 2.072 2.26S 2.714 3.603.. 000 tons 000 tons 22 42 573 19 424 75Ô 617
TABLE V COM.11/79 Page 13 OIL SEEDS Year Domestic Production Export Import Cotton seed 1934-33 195S 277.354 828.382 812.827 762,000 744.000 749.000 935.000 16.903 78.6OO Groundnuts 1925-2Ç 1934-3* I055 1953 Castor beans 1934-33 Babaçu nuts 1934-33 1953 Oiticica nuts 1934-33 1953 Soy bean 1934-33 185.856 180.911 191.621 308.268 333.400 126.106 163c996 160.988 200.288 173.316 204.250 18,525 36.850 77.887 80.747 87.175 94.139 47.597 24.097 26.089 30,713 12.491 106.884 114.933 121,502 130.900 143.000 287 18.172 393 121 2.050 654 14.273 92.642 61.410 24.453 31.7ÔO 24.946 9.860 17.509 18.628 7-730 16 3.737 1.487 _ 4.530 51.390 41.483 17.399 33.914 42,070
COM. n/79 Pago 14 TABLE VI VEGETABLE OILS Cont. Year Domestic Production Export Import Olive oil - 6.149 4.530 9.236 3.378 14.617 4.070 6,901 Soy bean oil 1.735 3.533 6,040 20.195.. 0
TABLE VI COM. 11/79 Pago 15 VEGETABLE OILS Year Domestic Production Export Import Cotton seed oil I925-29 75.705 90,135 93.424 75,149 74,622... 199 12.295... Groundnut oil 1925-29 i.04 57*649 27.937 33.834 73c3l8......... Castor oil 1925-29 3.789 41.914 39.621 64,403 81.186... 72 24.8Î6 20.092 48.114 55.318 47.719 - - Babaçu oil 5.343 41.239 32,674 29,188 42,217 C O. Z 1,554...... Oiticica oil. 11.435 12c494 9,888 16.237 5.506 8.993 9.316 6.941 6.58I 3.158 - cont. -
COM.II/79 Page 16 TABLE VII TOTAL OILSEEDS AND KERNELLS Year Exports tons 81.245 247.582 141.010 82.264 71,670 63.439 52.778 TOTAL VEGETABLE OILS - 393 20.949 34.287 29.735 55.712 64.186
TABLE VIII CCM.LL/79 Pago 17 FISH Year Domestic Export Import (*) Production tons tons... _ 34.946 1934-33 14.677 _ 10.075 150.2S7 _ 37.326 152.667 _ 36.006 157.352 _ 36.170 195a ISO.349 _ 16.245...... 14.133 (*) Codfish