G/SPS/N/USA/2338/Add.1  
 
13 February 2013  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 11 February 2013, is being circulated at the 
request of the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Notice of Decision to Authorize the Importation of Litchi, Longan, and Rambutan from the 
Philippines into the Continental United States  
 The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is advising the public of our decision 
to authorize the importation into the continental United States of fresh litchi, longan, and rambutan fruit from the Philippines. Based on the findings of a pest risk analysis, which we made 
available to the public for review and comment through a previous notice, we believe that the 
application of one or more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds via the importation of fresh fruit 
of litchi, longan, and rambutan from the Philippines. 
 This notice is available in English at: 
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docu mentDetail;D=APH IS-2012-0005-0004  
 Federal Register Volume 78, Number 26 (Thursday, 7 February 2013), Page 9027 
 We published a notice in the Federal Register on 6 March 2012 (77 FR 13260-13261, Docket 
No. APHIS-2012-0005), in which we announced the availability, for review and comment, of a PRA 
that evaluates the risks associated with the importation into the continental United States of fresh 
litchi, longan, and rambutan fruit from the Philippines. We solicited comments on the notice for 
60 days ending on 7 May 2012. We did not receive any comments by that date. 
This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of  previously notified draft regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation 
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force 
[ ] Other:    
Comment period:  (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potent ially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, norm ally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under 
other circumstances, such as extension of or iginally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  This Rule is effective 7 February 2013. G/SPS/N/USA/2338/Add.1 
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comme nts:  [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
For further information contact: Ms Claudia Ferguson, Regulatory Policy Specialist, Regulations, 
Permits, and Manuals, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; 
+(1 301) 851 2352.  
Text available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250; Tel: +(1 202) 720 1301; Fax: +(1 202) 720 0433; E-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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