G/SPS/N/USA/3313  
 
28 February 2022  
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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):  Coffee, green beans; Grain, cereal, group 15, except corn and rice; 
Rapeseed subgroup 20A; Cattle, fat; Cattle, meat; Cattle, meat by -products; Egg; G oat, 
fat; Goat, meat; Goat, meat by -products; Hog, fat; Hog, meat; Hog, meat by -products; 
Horse, fat; Horse, meat; Horse, meat by -products; Milk; Poultry, fat; Poultry, meat; 
Poultry, meat by -products; Sheep, fat; Sheep, meat; Sheep, meat by -products  
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:  Fluopyram; Pesticide Tolerances. Final Rule . 
Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  6 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-02-18/html/2022 -03385.htm  
6. Description of content:  This regulation amends tolerances for residues of fluopyram in 
or on cereal grain crop group 15 (except corn and rice), rapeseed subgroup 20A, and 
multiple animal commodities.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant prot ection, 
[ ] 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:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] 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:  EPA is not harmonizing the US tolerances for rapeseed subgroup 
20A and crop group 15 ( except rice and corn) with the Codex MRLs for canola, rye grain, 
or wheat grain because the US tolerances are being harmonized with the Canadian MRLs G/SPS/N/USA/3313  
 
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  as part of a joint review with the US's major trading partner. To be consistent with 
Canada, EPA is not ha rmonizing the US tolerances for milk, cattle fat, cattle meat, cattle 
meat by -products, hog fat, hog meat, hog meat by -products, eggs, poultry fat, poultry 
meat, and poultry meat by -products with the Codex MRLs above.  
9. Other relevant documents and langu age(s) in which these are available:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-02-25/html/2021 -03714.htm  (available in 
English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 18 February 2022  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 18 February 2022  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : 18 February 2022  
[ ] 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 Enqui ry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Marietta Echeverria, Registration Division (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460 - 
0001; Main t elephone number: +(703) 305 7090; E -mail: 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 -2022-02-18/html/2022 -03385.htm