WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1704 
31 August 2007  
 (07-3677) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  UNITED STATES
  
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numb er(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Acerola; almond, hulls; amaranth; apple; artichok e; asparagus; atemoya; 
avocado; banana; barley; beet; biriba; Brassica ; bushberry; caneberry; canistel; cattle; citrus; 
coriander; corn; cotton; cranberry; custard appl e; feijoa; fig; fruit,  pome, group 11; fruit, 
stone, group 12; goat; grain; grape at 0. 5 ppm; guava; herb; hog;  hops; horse; ilama; 
jaboticaba; juneberry; vegetables, leafy (excep t Brassica vegetables),  group 4; vegetables, 
legume; lingonberry; longan; lychee; mango; m ilk; millet; nut, tree, group 14; oat; okra; 
onion; papaya; passionfruit; peanut; peppermint; pistachio; plantain; pul asan; rambutan; rye; 
salal; sapodilla; sapote; sheep; sorghum; sour sop; soybean; Spanish lime; spearmint; star 
apple; starfruit; strawberry; sugar apple; teosin te; ti, leaves; triticale; vegetable, Brassica, 
leafy, group 5; vegetable, bulb; vegetable, cucurbit; vegetable, fruiting, group8 ; vegetable 
root and tuber; waterc ress; wax jambu; wheat 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable :  Any 
US trade partners 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  NOTICE:   N o t i c e  o f  
Filing of Pesticide Petitions for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various 
Commodities (available in English, 3 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This notice proposes to establish a tolerance for residues of the 
insecticide XDE-175 (expressed as combin ation of XDE-175-J): 1-H-as-Indaceno[3,2-
d]oxacyclododecin-7,15- dione, 2-[(6-deoxy-3-O-eth yl-2,4-di-O-methyl-a-L-
mannopyranosyl)oxy]- 13-[[(2R,5S,6R)-5-(dimethy lamino) tetrahydro-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2- 
yl]oxy]-9-ethyl-2,3,3a,4,5,5a,5b,6,9,10,11, 12,13,14,16a,16b- hexadecahydro 14-methyl-, 
(2R,3aR,5aR,5bS,9S,13S,14R,16aS,16bR) and XDE-175-L: 1H-as-Indaceno[3,2-
d]oxacyclododecin-7,15-dione, 2-[(6- deoxy-3-O-ethyl-2,4-di-O-methyl-a-L-
mannopyranosyl)oxy]-13- [[(2R,5S,6R)-5-(dimethy lamino) tetrahydro-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2-
yl]oxy]- 9-ethyl-2,3,3a,5a, 5b,6,9,10,11,12,13,14,16a,16b-tetr adecahydro-4,14- dimethyl 
,(2S,3aR,5aS,5bS,9S,13S,14R,16aS,16bS] in or on food commodities acerola at 1.5 parts per 
million (ppm); almond, hulls at 2 ppm; amaranth, grain, grain at  1 ppm; apple, wet pomace at 
0.5 ppm; artichoke, globe at 0.3 ppm; asparagus at 0.2 ppm; atemoya at 0.3 ppm; avocado at 
0.3 ppm; banana at 0.25 ppm; barley, hay and stra w at 5 ppm; beet, sugar, molasses at 0.75 
ppm; biriba at 0.3 ppm; Brassica, head an d stem, subgroup 5A at 2 ppm; bushberry, subgroup 
13B at 0.25 ppm; caneberry, s ubgroup 13A at 0.7 ppm; canistel at  0.3 ppm; cattle, fat at 2 
ppm; cattle, meat byproduc ts at 1 ppm; cattle, meat at 0.1 pp m; cherimoya at 0.3 ppm; citrus,  G/SPS/N/USA/1704 
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  dried pulp at 0.5 ppm; citrus, oil at 3 ppm; corian der, leaves at 8 ppm; corn, field, forage at 
1.5 ppm; corn, field, hay at 1 ppm; corn, field, stover at 5 ppm; corn, field, straw at 1 ppm; corn, sweet, forage at 1.5 ppm; corn, sweet, ke rnel plus cob with husks removed at 0.02 ppm; 
corn, sweet, stover at 5 ppm; cotton, gin bypr oducts at 1.5 ppm; cotton, undelinted seed at 
0.02 ppm; cranberry at 0.01 ppm; custard apple at 0.3 ppm; feijoa at 0.05 ppm; fig at 0.1 ppm; 
fruit, citrus, group 10 at 0.3 ppm; fruit, pome, group 11 at 0.2 ppm; fruit, stone, group 12 at 
0.2 ppm; goat, fat at 2 ppm; goat, meat byproducts  at 1 ppm; goat, meat at 0.1 ppm; grain, 
aspirated fractions at 5 ppm; grain, cereal, gr oup 15 at 0.02 ppm; grape at 0.5 ppm; guava at 
0.3 ppm; herb, dried, subgroup 19B at 22 ppm; herbs, fresh, subgroup 19A at 3 ppm; hog, fat 
at 1 ppm; hog, meat at 0.1 ppm; hog, meat by products at 0.5 ppm; h ops at 22 ppm; horse, fat 
at 2 ppm; horse, meat at 0.1 ppm; horse, me at byproducts at 1 ppm; ilama at 0.3 ppm; 
jaboticaba at 0.3 ppm; juneberry at 0.25 ppm; vegetables, leafy (except Brassica vegetables), 
group 4 at 8 ppm; vegetables, legume, dried shell pea and bean (except soybean), crop 
subgroup 6C at 0.02 ppm; vegetables, legume, edible podded, crop subgroup 6A at 0.3 ppm; 
vegetables, legume, succulent shelled p ea and bean, crop subgroup 6B at 0.02 ppm; 
lingonberry at 0.25 ppm; longan at 0.3 ppm; lychee at 0.3 ppm; ma ngo at 0.3 ppm; milk at 
0.5 ppm; milk, fat at 1 ppm; millet, forage at  1.5 ppm; millet, hay and straw at 5 ppm; nut, 
tree, group 14 at 0.02 ppm; oat, forage at 1.5 ppm; oat, hay and straw at 5 ppm; okra at 0.4 
ppm; onion, dry, bulb at 0.1 ppm; onion, green at 2 ppm; papaya at 0.3 ppm; passionfruit at 0.3 ppm; peanut at 0.02 ppm; peanut, hay at 11 ppm; peppermint, tops at 3.5 ppm; pistachio 
at 0.02 ppm; plantain at 0.25 ppm; pulasan at 0. 3 ppm; rambutan at 0.3 ppm; rye, forage at 
1.5 ppm; rye, straw at 5 ppm; salal at 0.25 ppm; sapodilla at 0.3 ppm; sapote, black at 0.3 
ppm; sapote, mamey at 0.3 ppm; sapote, white at 0.3 ppm; sheep, fat at 2 ppm; sheep, meat at 0.1 ppm; sheep, meat byproducts at 1 ppm; sorghum, forage at 1.5 ppm; sorghum, hay at 5 ppm; sorghum, stover at 5 ppm; soursop at 0. 3 ppm; soybean at 0.02 ppm; Spanish lime at 
0.3 ppm; spearmint, tops at 3.5 ppm; star apple at 0.3 ppm; starfruit at 0.3 ppm; strawberry 
at 1 ppm; sugar apple at 0.3 ppm; teosinte, fo rage at 1.5 ppm; ti, leaves at 10 ppm; triticale, 
forage at 1.5 ppm; triticale, hay at 5 ppm; vegetable, Brassica, leafy, group 5 at 10 ppm; vegetable, bulb, (except green onion, group 3 at 0.1 ppm; vegetable, cucurbit (cucumber, 
melon, squashes)), group 9 at 0.3 ppm; vegeta ble, foliage of legume, group 7 at 8 ppm; 
vegetable, fruiting, group 8 at 0.4 ppm; vegeta ble, leaves of root and tuber, group 2 at 10 
ppm; vegetable, root and tuber, group 1 at 0. 1 ppm; watercress at 8 ppm; wax jambu at 0.3 
ppm; wheat, forage at 1.5 ppm; wheat, hay and straw at 5 ppm. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [ X ] animal health,  [ X ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ] protect territory from other damage from pests    
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    
9. Relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:   F e d e r a l  R e g i s t e r :   
22 August 2007 (Volume 72, Number 162) Notices Page 47008-47010; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA -PEST/2007/August/Day-22/p16559.htm  
10. Proposed date of adoption:    N/A  G/SPS/N/USA/1704 
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  11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This is a notice of availability which may or may not 
result in further regulatory action. 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 21 September 2007, 
may be identified by docke t number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0936. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or  address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  Registration Division, (7505P), Of fice of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Penn sylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001  
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notificati on authority, [   ] Na tional enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if ava ilable) of other body:  United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Divi sion (IRSD), Stop 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 
202) 720-1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 690-0677;  E- mail:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov