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THE BALTIC STATES: The EC does allocate eome funds for technical 

 assistance to the Baltics but the level of spending is unknown to us. 

 NATURE OF PROJECTS: As in the case of the CIS, most of i-he projects can 

 be described as technical assistance. 



SPECIFIC PROJECTS RELATED TO FEED GRAINS: 1) Consultants are used in the 

 poultry industry to asses the situation regarding feed quality, bird 

 health and energy saving measures in poultry houses. 2) A project is 

 being funded to renovate a premix mill and some vitamin premixes have 

 been initially donated to the 



project. 3) The EC has funded a project to set up a farmers consulting 

 center in Lithuania. 4) Introduction of new wheat varieties in 

 Lithuania. 



UKRAINE: Assistance from the EC and Canada is taking the form of 

 technical assistance to livestock industries, agricultural machinery and 

 crop production. The EC also has COFACS credit which it last offered to 

 the Ukraine in 1992. The COFACE credit was worth $100 million of which 

 10 million was used to purchase corn, 4 million for barley and the 

 balance for wheat. ' 



OTHER FSU/EEU: in 1991 the Dutch government announced a program to 

 provide leasing opportunities up to $18.9 million for projects in each 

 of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, 

 Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgistan, Latvia, Lithuania, 

 Moldova, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Tagiklstan, and 

 Turkmenistan. This program is funded under what the Dutch government 

 calls the Government Help Program for Eastern Europe. The program is 

 responsible for the crediting process, and an economic council provides 

 guarantees for these credits. These funds can be used for both 

 agricultural and non-ag projects. 



KOREA: 1) Thai government presented a decoration of her Majesty King 

 Bhumibol Adulyadei to Mr. Joo Ho Kim, President of Korea Feed 

 Association for his efforts to mitigate trade barriers - reduce the 

 level of import duty. 2) EC members provide an export subsidy for the 

 exports of feed wheat, malt, etc. 3) It is known that the Cemadian 

 government assumes inland/domestic transportation costs to export raw 

 agricultural products. 4) China always sets the export prices of corn, 

 sorghum and feed wheat below thn world market prices. 



EGYPT: From the EC, most of the promotion is through feed grain 

 subsidies, and the promotion of animal production industries which 

 directly or indirectly affect feed grain imports. Canada also spends 

 most of its promotional efforts on the animal sector. Argentina, Brazil, 

 India and Thailand spend their promotion efforts on team visits. 



TAIWAN: 1) Australia exports some 80,000 mt of malting barley 

 annually to Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau on 'destination 

 final' terms. 2) Thailand dumps about 150-200,000 mt of tapioca pellet 

 annually for the local feed industry in exchange for export quotas to 

 the EC market. 3) Subsidized exports of about 50,000 mt of corn starch 

 to Taiwan annually by the EC. 4) Australian and Canadian barley boards' 

 price manipulation for annual sales of about 160,000 mt of barley for 

 feed use. 



