. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/983 
8 September 2004 
 (04-3741) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Products that use the pesticide Pyrimethanil, 4,6-dimethyl-N-phenyl-2-
pyrimidinamine, in or on almond; almond, hulls ; apple, wet pomace; banana; citrus oil; 
fruit, citrus, group 10 (post-harvest); fruit, pome, group 11 (pre-harvest and post-harvest); 
fruit, stone (except cherry), group 12; grape; grape, raisin; onion, dry bulb; onion, green; pistachio; strawberry; tomato; and vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup 1C; for residues 
of pyrimethanil and its metabolite, 4-[4,6-dimethyl-2-pyrimidinyl)amino]phenol in or on cattle, fat; cattle, kidney; cattle, meat; cattle m eat-by-products (except kidney); goat, fat; 
goat, kidney; goat, meat; goat meat-by-products  (except kidney); horse, fat; horse, kidney; 
horse, meat; horse, meat-by-products (excep t kidney); sheep, fat; sheep, kidney; sheep, 
meat; and sheep, meat-by-products (except ki dney); and for residues of pyrimethanil and 
its metabolite 4,6-dimethyl-2-(phenylamino)-5-pyrimidinol in milk. 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
US trade partners. 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Final Rule:  
Pyrimethanil;  Pesticide Tolerances (available in English, 11 pages). 
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes tolera nces for residues of the fungicide 
pyrimethanil, 4,6-dimethyl-N-phenyl-2-pyrimidin amine, in or on citrus fruits (calamondin, 
citrus citron, citrus hybrids, grapefruit, kum quat, lemon, lime, mandarin, sour and sweet 
oranges, pummelo and satsuma mandarin) at 6 parts per million (ppm); pome fruit (apples, 
pears, oriental pears, crabapples, loquats, mayhaws, and quince) wet pomace at 12 ppm; 
and pome fruit (apples, pears, oriental pears, crabapples, loquats, mayhaws, and quince) at 
3 ppm 2F6480; tree nut, nutmeat, group at 0.25 ppm; tree nut, hulls, group at 12 ppm; fruit, pome, group at 0.20 ppm; apple, wet pomace at 0.75 ppm; fruit, stone, group at 3.0 ppm; grape at 3.0 ppm; grape, dry pomace at 20 ppm,; grape, wet pomace at 7.0 ppm; grape, raisen waste at 50 ppm; grape, raisin at 5.0 ppm; vegetable, bulb, group at 2.0 ppm; 
vegetable, tuberous and corm, subgroup at 0.05 ppm; strawberry at 3.0 ppm; tomato at 0.50 
ppm; wheat, rotational at 0.05 ppm; cattle, meat at 0.1 ppm; cattle, meat-by-products at 0.1 
ppm; and milk at 0.03 ppm 2F6439;, and banana at 0.10 ppm 9E6054. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from other damage from pests G/SPS/N/USA/983 
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 8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:   NA 
9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:   DOCID:fr, Federal 
Register : 26 August 2004 (Volume 69, Number 165) Pages 52434-52444; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- PEST/2004/August/Day-26/p19525.htm  (available in 
English). 
10. Proposed date of adoption:   Not available 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   26 August 2004 
12. Final date for comments:  Objections and requests for hear ings must be received on or 
before 25 October 2004.  EPA issued noti ces pursuant to these petitions in the 
14 February 2003 and 5 Ma rch 2003 Federal Registers for public comment.   
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X ] National notification 
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   Registration Division (7505C), Office of Pesticide Programs 
(OPP), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 
DC 20460.  opp-docket@epa.gov  Note:  Identify docket name "OPP-2004-0195" in 
subject line of your response. 
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notificati on authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail a ddress (if available) of other body:   Ms. Julie 
Morin, United States SPS Enquiry Point O fficer, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, 
Food Safety & Technical Services Divisi on, Stop 1027, Washi ngton D.C. 20250.  
Tel:  202-720-4051;  Fax:  202-690-0677;  Email:  fstsd@usda.gov