G/TBT/N/USA/1973  
15 March 2023  
(23-1889) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) [2004]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  ], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other  [X]: To resolve consumer confusion surrounding current voluntary label claims 
related to the origin of FSIS -regulated products in the U.S. marketplace.  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Voluntary 
food labelling of meat, poultry, and egg products, as well as voluntarily inspected 
products; Processes in the food industry (ICS code(s): 67.020); Meat, meat pr oducts and 
other animal produce (ICS code(s): 67.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Voluntary 
Labeling of FSIS -Regulated Products With U.S. -Origin Claims; (17 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Proposed rule - FSIS is proposing to amend its regulations to 
define the conditions under which the labeling of meat, poultry, and egg products, as well 
as voluntarily -inspected products, may bear voluntary label claims indicating that the 
product is of United Stat es origin. The Agency is taking this action to resolve consumer 
confusion surrounding current voluntary label claims related to the origin of FSIS -
regulated products in the U.S. marketplace. Under this proposal, establishments would 
not need to include the se claims on the label, but if they chose to include them, they 
would need to meet the requirements in this rule.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling  G/TBT/N/USA/1973  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
88 Federal Register (FR) 15290, 13 March 2023; Title 9 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 
Part 412:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-03-13/html/2023 -04815.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-03-13/pdf/2023 -04815.pdf  
This proposed rule is identified by Docket Number FSIS 2022 -0015. The Docket Folder is 
available on Regulations.gov at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FSIS 2022 -
0015/document  and provides access to primary documents as well as comments received. 
Documents are also acce ssible from Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. 
WTO Members and their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT 
Enquiry Point . Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and 
their stakeholders by 4pm Eastern Time  on 12 May 2023 will be shared with the regulator 
and will also be submitted to the Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the 
comment period.  
G/TBT/N/USA/1832  - Notice of Request for a New Information Collection: Analyzing 
Consumers' Value of "Product of USA" Labeling Claims , FSIS-2021-0031 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  12 May 2023 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/USA/23_1972_00_e.pdf