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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/758
4 July 2003
(03-3597)
Committee on Sanitary and 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 number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Products that use the pesticide Imidacloprid and its metabolites containing the
6-chloropyridinyl moiety, all expressed as the parent in or on acerola;  artichoke, globe;
avocado;  banana (import);  canistel;  corn, pop, grain;  corn, pop, stover; cranberry;currant; elderberry; feijoa;  fruit, stone, group 12;  gooseberry; huckleberry; guava;
jaboticaba;  juneberry; lingonberry; longan;  lychee;  mango;  mustard, seed;  okra;
papaya;  passionfruit; persimmon;  pulasan;  rambutan;  salal;  sapodilla;  sapote, black;
sapote, mamey; Spanish lime;  star apple;  starfruit; strawberry; vegetable, leaves of root
and tuber, group 2;  vegetable, legume, group 6, except soybean;  vegetable, root and tuber,group 1, except sugar beet;  watercress;  wax jambu.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any
US trading partners.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Imidacloprid; Pesticide
Tolerances, available in English, 12 pages.
6. Description  of content:  This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of
Imidacloprid and its metabolites containing the 6-chloropyridinyl moiety on the Bushberry
subgroup 13B, lingonberry, juneberry and salal at 3.5 parts per million (ppm) (PP 1E6268),okra at 1.0 ppm (PP 1E6254), watercress at 3.5 ppm (PP 1E6237), artichoke at 2.5 ppm
(PP 1E6225), cranberry at 0.05 ppm (PP 0E6203), vegetable, legume, except soybean,
group 6 at 4.0 ppm (PP 2E6403), avocado, papaya, star apple, black sapote, mango,
sapodilla, canistel, and mamey sapote at 1.0 ppm, and lychee, longan, Spanish lime,
rambutan, pulasan and persimmon at 3.0 ppm (PP 2E6406), vegetable, leaves of root andtuber, group 2 at 4.0 ppm (PP 2E6409), strawb erry at 0.5 ppm (PP 2E6417), fruit, stone,
group 12 at 3.0 ppm (PP 2E6421), guava, feijoa, jaboticaba, wax jambu, starfruit,
passionfruit, and acerola at 1.0 ppm (PP 2E6435), corn, pop, grain at 0.05 ppm and corn,
pop, stover at 0.2 ppm (PP 2E6414), mustard seed at 0.05 ppm (PP 2E6458), and
vegetable, root and tuber, except sugar beet, group 1, except sugar beet, at 0.4 ppm (PP
2E6506);  imported banana at 0.01 ppm (0E6074).  The petition for imported banana was
subsequently amended to propose a tolerance at 0.02 ppm.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from other
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8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:   not applicable
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  DOCID: fr13jn03-21,
Federal Register:  13 June 2003 (Volume 68, Number 114) Page 35303-35315;
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2003/June/Day-13/p14880.htm;  available inEnglish.
10. Proposed date of adoption:  12 June 2003
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  not applicable
12. Final date for comments:  12 August 2003
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Public Information and Records Integrity Branch (PIRIB), Information Resources and
Services Division (7502C), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), Environmental ProtectionAgency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. opp-docket@epa.gov
Note:  Identify docket name "OPP-2003-0103" in subject line of your response.
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Mr. Bill Janis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop 1027, Washington, DC 20250.
Tel (202) 720-9047, (202) 720-0677, fstsd@usda.gov