G/TBT/N/USA/1665  
30 October 2020  
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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:  Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Department of Agriculture 
(USDA) [1693]  
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 [   ], other  [X]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Vegetables; EDIBLE VEGETABLES AND CERTAIN ROOTS AND TUBERS (HS 07); 
Fruits.  Vegetables (ICS 67.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Termination of 
U.S. Consumer Standards (1 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of cont ent: Notice - The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the 
Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposes to terminate the following 10 U.S. 
Consumer  Standards: The U.S. Consumer Standards for Italian Sprouting Broccoli, 
U.S. Consumer Standards for Fresh Car rots, U.S. Consumer Standards for Celery 
Stalks,  U.S. Consumer Standards for Husked Corn on the Cob, U.S. Consumer Standards 
for Fresh Kale, U.S. Consumer Standards for Fresh Spinach Leaves, U.S. Consumer 
Standards for Brussels Sprouts, U.S. Consumer Stand ards for Fresh Parsnips, U.S. 
Consumer Standards for Fresh Turnips, and U.S. Consumer Standards for Beet Greens. 
This proposed action is part of USDA's work to eliminate regulations that are outdated, 
unnecessary, ineffective, or impose costs that exceed b enefits.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Cost saving and productivity enhancement  
8. Relevant documents:   
• 85 Federal Register (FR) 68285, 28 October 2020; Title 7 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) Part 36:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-10-28/html/2020 -23349.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-10-28/pdf/2020 -23349.pdf  
This notice and request for comments is identified by Docket Number AMS -SC-19-0103. 
The Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=AMS_FRDOC_0001  and provides access to G/TBT/N/USA/1665  
 
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  primary documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible from 
Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number or searching 'Termination of U.S. 
Consumer Standards'. 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 will be shared with the regulator and  will 
also be submitted to the Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the comment 
period.  
For awareness we also make note of previous notifications, G/TBT/N/USA/1569 and 
G/TBT/N/USA/1569/Add.1 , "Revision of Three U.S. Grade Standards for Carrots".  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  28 December 2020  
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/2020/TBT/USA/20_6644_00_e.pdf