G/SPS/N/USA/2873/Add.1  
 
5 January 2022  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 5 January 2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Importation of Sheep, Goats, and Certain Other Ruminants,  Docket No. APHIS -2009-0095 
We are amending the  regulations governing the importation of  animals and animal products to revise 
conditions for the importation of live  sheep, goats, and certain other nonbovine  ruminants, and 
products derived  from sheep and goats, with regard to  transmissible spongiform  encephalopathies 
such as bovine  spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and  scrapie. We are removing BSE -related  import 
restrictions on sheep and goats  and most of their products, and adding  import restrictions related 
to transmissible spongiform  encephalopathies for certain wild,  zoological, or other non -
bovine  ruminant species. The conditions we are  adopting for the importation of specified  commodities 
are based on  internationally accepted scie ntific literature and will generally align our  regulations with 
guidelines established  in the World Organization for Animal  Health's Terrestrial Animal Health  Code. 
DATE Effective 3 January 2022. (Published in the Federal Register, Vol. 86, No. 230, 
3 December 2021, pp. 68834 to 68864).  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regu lation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[X] Other: In this final rule, we are amending the regulations governing the importation 
of animals and animal products to revise  conditions for the importation of live  sheep, 
goats, and certain other nonbovine  ruminants, and products derived  from sheep and 
goats, with regard to  transmissible spongiform  encephalopathies such as 
bovine  spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and  scrapi e. We are removing 
BSE-related  import restrictions on sheep and goats  and most of their products, and 
adding  import restrictions related to  transmissible spongiform  encephalopathies for 
certain wild,  zoological, or other non -bovine  ruminant species. The co nditions we 
are adopting for the importation of specified  commodities are based 
on internationally accepted scientific  literature and will generally align our  regulations 
with guidelines established  in the World Organization for Animal  Health's Terrestrial  
Animal Health  Code. (Published in the Federal Register, Vol. 86, No. 230, 
3 December  2021, pp. 68834 to 68864).  DATE Effective 3 January 2022.  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/ or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  G/SPS/N/USA/2873/Add.1  
 
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  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Final Rule/Not Applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enqu iry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
Dr. Alexandra MacKenzie, Veterinary Medical Officer, Strategy & Policy, VS,  APHIS, 4700 River Road, 
Unit 39, Riverdale, MD 20737 -1231; (301) 851 - 
3300  
Text(s) available from : [ ] National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/03/2021 -26302/importation -of-sheep -goats -
and-certain -other -ruminants   
 
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