G/SPS/N/USA/3450  
29 April 2024  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency  
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):  Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  "Cyclaniliprole;"  Pesticide Tolerance. Final Rule . 
Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  2 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-04-23/html/2024 -08022.htm  
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes a tolerance for residues of 
cyclaniliprole in or on Vegetable, cucurbit, group 9.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory  from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : 
 https://www.fao.org/fao -who-codexalimentarius/codex -
texts/dbs/pestres/pesticide -detail/en/?p_id=296  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health  (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  There are Codex MRLs established for residues of cyclaniliprole 
on cucumber and squash (summer) at 0.05 ppm; and melons, pumpkin, squash (winter) 
at 0.1 ppm which are dif ferent than the U.S. tolerance for the cucurbit vegetable group 9 
established in this action (0.3 ppm). For cucurbit vegetable group 9, no harmonization is 
possible for these  G/SPS/N/USA/3450  
 
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  commodities because decreasing the tolerance level to harmonize with the Codex MR L 
could put U.S. growers at risk of violative residues  
despite legal use of cyclaniliprole.  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-02-09/html/2024 -02805.htm  (available 
in English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 23 April 2024  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 23 April 2024  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 23 April 2024  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [  ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address 
(if ava ilable) of other body:   
Charles Smith, Director, Registration Division (7505T), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, 
DC 20460 -0001; main telephone number:+(202) 566 1030; E -mail address: 
RDFRNotices@epa.gov . 
13. Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2024-04-23/html/2024 -08022.htm