WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/665
9 January 2003
(03-0113)
Committee on Sanitary and 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 number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Products that use the pesticide methoxyfenozide, specifically almond, hulls;
artichoke, globe;  field corn grain;  field corn forage;  field corn stover (fodder);  corn, oil;
aspirated grain fractions;  sweet corn (K + CWHR);  sweet corn forage;  sweet corn stover
(fodder);  corn silage;  stone fruits crop group;  prunes; grapes;  Spanish lime;  longan;lychee;  tree nut crop group;  pulasan;  raisins;  rambutan;  fruiting vegetables (except
cucurbits);  crop subgroup 4A leafy green vegetables;  4B leaf petioles;  head and stem
Brassica;  crop subgroup 5B leafy Brassica greens, milk, in the fat of cattle, goats, horses,
hogs and sheep; liver of cattle, goats, horses,  hogs and sheep; and meat by-products (except
liver) of cattle, goats, horses hogs and sheep, root and tuber vegetables; leaves of root and
tuber vegetables;  bulb vegetables;  leafy vegetables (except Brassica);  Brassica
vegetables;  legume vegetables;  foliage of legume vegetables;  forage, fodder, hay, andstraw of cereal grains;  grass forage, fodder and hay; forage, fodder, straw and hay of
non-grass animal feeds;  and herbs and spices, and stone fruit (except plum, fresh prune).
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any
U.S. trading partners
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Methoxyfenozide;
Pesticide Tolerance, (available in English, 13 pages).
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of
methoxyfenozide and the combined residues of methoxyfenozide and its glucuronidemetabolite tolerances are established for residues of the insecticide methoxyfenozide per
se;  benzoic acid, 3-methoxy-2-methyl-, 2-(3,5-dimethylbenzoyl)-2-(1,1-dimethylethyl)
hydrazide in or on the following food commodities:  Almond, hulls (25 ppm);  Apple, wet
pomace (7.0 ppm);  Artichoke, globe (3.0 ppm );  Brassica, head and stem, subgroup
(7.0 ppm);  Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup (30 ppm);  Cattle, fat (0.50 ppm) Cattle, meat(0.02 ppm);  Corn, field, forage  (15 ppm);  Corn, field, gr ain (0.05 ppm);  Corn, field,
refined oil (0.20 ppm);  Corn, field, stover (125 ppm);  Corn, sweet, forage (30 ppm);
Corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husks removed (0.05 ppm);  Corn, sweet, stover
(60 ppm);  Cotton, gin by-products (35 ppm);  Cotton, undelinted seed (2.0 ppm);  Fruit,
pome, group (1.5 ppm);  Fruit, stone, group, exce pt fresh prune plum (3.0 ppm);  Goat, fat
(0.50 ppm);  Goat, meat (0.02 ppm);  Grain, aspirated fractions (2.0 ppm);  Grape
(1.0 ppm);  Grape, raisin (1.5 ppm);  Hog, fa t (0.1 ppm);  Hog, meat (0.02 ppm);  Horse, fat
(0.50 ppm);  Horse, meat (0.02 ppm);  Leaf  petioles subgroup (25 ppm);  Leafy greens
subgroup (30 ppm);  Longan (2.0 ppm);  Lychee (2.0 ppm);  Milk (0.10 ppm);  Nut, tree,
group (0.10 ppm);  Pistachio (0.1 0 ppm);  Plum, prune, fresh (0.30 ppm);  Poultry, fat
(0.02 ppm);  Poultry, meat (0.02 ppm);  Pula san (2.0 ppm);  Rambutan (2.0 ppm); Sheep,G/SPS/N/USA/665
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fat (0.50 ppm);  Sheep, meat (0.02 ppm), Spanish lime (2.0 ppm) Vegetable, fruiting, group
(2.0ppm).
For combined residues of the insecticide methoxyfenozide;  benzoic acid, 3-methoxy-2-
methyl-, 2-(3,5-dimethylbenzoyl)-2-(1,1- dimethylethyl) hydrazide and its glucuronide
metabolite RH-141,518; [beta]-D-Glucopyranuron ic acid, 3-[2-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-2-(3,5-
dimethylbenzoyl)-hydrazino]carbonyl-2-methylphenyl-] in the following commodities:
Cattle, liver (0.40 ppm);  Cattle, meat by products, except liver (0.10 ppm);  Egg
(0.02 ppm);  Goat, liver (0.40 ppm);  Goat, m eat byproducts, except liver (0.10 ppm);  Hog,
liver (0.1 ppm);  Hog, meat by-products, except  liver (0.02 ppm);  Horse, liver (0.40 ppm);
Horse, meat by-products, except liver (0.10 ppm) ;  Poultry, liver (0.10 ppm);  Poultry, meat
by-products, except liver (0.02 ppm);  Sheep, li ver (0.40 ppm);  Sheep, meat by-products,
except liver (0.10 ppm).Section 18 emergency exemptions.  Time-limited tolerances are established for the residues
of the insecticide methoxyfenozide in connection with the use of the pesticide under
Section 18 emergency exemption granted by EPA
Corn, field, forage (10 ppm), (revocation date:  12/31/03);  Corn, field, grain (0.02 ppm),
(revocation date:  12/31/03);  Corn, field, stover. (75 ppm), (revocation date:  12/31/03);
Corn, oil (0.1 ppm), (revocation date:  12/31/03);  Soybean, aspirated grain fractions
(20 ppm), (revocation date:  12/31/03);  Soybean, forage (10 ppm), (revocation date:
12/31/03);  Soybean, hay (75 ppm), (revocation date:  12/31/03);  Soybean, refined oil
(1.0 ppm), (revocation date:  12/31/03);  Soybean, seed (0.04 ppm), (revocation date:
12/31/03).
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
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  DOCID:
fr20se02-14, Federal Register:  20 September 2002 (Volume 67, Number 183)
Pages 59193-59205,
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2002/September/Day-20/p23996.htm;  Available
in English
10. Proposed date of adoption:  n.a.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   20 September 2002
12. Final date for comments:  19 November 2002
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:   ¨
Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Information Resources and
Services Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.  opp-docket@epa.gov
Note:  Identify docket name "AOPP-2002- 0219" in subject line of your response.G/SPS/N/USA/665
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13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Mr. Bill Janis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1027, Washington, DC 20250.
Tel (202) 720-9047, (202) 720-0677, fstsd@usda.gov