Australia's cost recovery arrangements for export certification : implications for Australian agriculture

\r\nThe Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is currently redesigning its cost recovery arrangements for export certification services. The Cost Recovery Taskforce requested that ABARES analyse the effect of full cost recovery of the cost of export certification services on the competitiveness of Australian agricultural exports. The report: \r\n• estimates how full cost recovery affects the value of Australia's agricultural and fisheries exports \r\n• considers the farm-gate impact of exporters passing costs on to producers under a range of scenarios \r\n• investigates cost recovery arrangements in competitor countries for major export commodities. \r\n Key Issues \r\n\r\n ABARES modelling and analysis indicates that full recovery of the department's export certification costs has a small impact on the value of agricultural exports - less than 1 per cent for each of the export commodities considered. • The largest reduction in value occurs in beef and sheep meat exports, which are estimated to decrease by 0.79 per cent and 0.54 per cent, respectively. Beef and sheep meat exports have the highest industry cost of export certification relative to the value of exports. \r\n ABARES modelling also indicates that export certification charges have a small impact on farm gate receipts. • Livestock producers' farm gate receipts are estimated to fall between 0.57 and 0.74 per cent. In dollar terms, the impacts range from about $1509 for a typical sheep farm to about $2440 for a typical sheep-beef farm. \r\n• Cropping and dairy producers' farm gate receipts are estimated to fall by up to 0.23 per cent. In dollar terms, the impacts range from about $648 for a typical dairy farm to $1884 for a typical wheat and other crops farm. \r\n• Horticulture farm receipts for macadamia, almond and orange producers are estimated to fall between 0.11 and 0.28 per cent, based on the average volume of product grown per farm. In dollar terms, the impacts range from $425 for a macadamia farmer and $2415 for an almond farmer, based on the average volume of product grown per farm. \r\n• Horticulture farm receipts for table grape producers are estimated to fall by 0.38 per cent ($1636) based on the average volume of product grown per farm. \r\n ABARES investigated the cost recovery arrangements of Canada, Chile, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Thailand and the United States. • All these countries have arrangements in place to recover some or all of the costs of providing export certification services. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

澳大利亚农业与水资源部（Department of Agriculture and Water Resources）目前正重新设计其出口认证服务的成本回收机制。成本回收专项工作组（Cost Recovery Taskforce）委托澳大利亚农业与资源经济科学局（Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences，缩写ABARES）分析出口认证服务成本全额回收对澳大利亚农产品出口竞争力的影响。本报告涵盖以下研究内容：
• 估算全额成本回收对澳大利亚农业及渔业出口总值的影响
• 考量在多种情景下，出口商将认证成本转嫁至生产商时对农场出厂收入的影响
• 调研主要出口商品的竞争国成本回收机制。

关键议题

ABARES的建模与分析结果显示，该部门出口认证成本的全额回收对农业出口总值的影响幅度较小——本次调研涉及的各类出口商品的出口额降幅均不足1%。
• 出口额降幅最大的品类为牛肉及绵羊肉，预计分别下降0.79%和0.54%。相较于出口总值而言，牛肉和绵羊肉产业的出口认证单位成本占比最高。

ABARES的建模结果同时表明，出口认证收费对农场出厂收入的影响有限。
• 畜牧生产商的农场出厂收入预计下降0.57%至0.74%。按金额折算，影响幅度从典型绵羊牧场的约1509澳元，至典型肉羊-肉牛混合牧场的约2440澳元不等。
• 种植业与乳业生产商的农场出厂收入预计最高下降0.23%。按金额折算，影响幅度从典型奶牛牧场的约648澳元，至典型小麦及其他作物种植场的约1884澳元不等。
• 澳洲坚果、杏仁及橙子种植户的园艺农场收入预计下降0.11%至0.28%（基于各农场的平均种植规模）。按金额折算，影响幅度从澳洲坚果种植户的425澳元，至杏仁种植户的2415澳元不等。
• 鲜食葡萄种植户的园艺农场收入预计下降0.38%（对应金额为1636澳元），基于各农场的平均种植规模。

ABARES调研了加拿大、智利、德国、爱尔兰、荷兰、新西兰、波兰、泰国及美国的出口认证成本回收机制。
• 上述国家均已建立相关机制，用于回收部分或全部出口认证服务的提供成本。