Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-1016-0175
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2007-12-28T05:00Z

REPORT FROM THE 16TH MEETING OF THE PARTIES		Annex II

Reporting accounting framework for critical uses of methyl bromide      
                                              (all quantities expressed
in metric tonnes)

Party: ___United States of America_________________	

A	B	C 	D	E

(C + D)	F

(B - E)	G	H

(E + G)	I	J	K	L

(E -I – J - K)d

Year of critical use	Quantity exempted for year of critical use1
Quantity acquired by production for critical use	Quantity acquired for
critical use by import & countr(y)(ies) of Manufacture	Total quantity
acquired for  U.S. critical use	Quantity  authorized but not acquired
Amount on hand at start of year2	Amount available for use in current
year	Amount used for critical use	Amount exported	Amount destroyed
Amount on hand at end of year3

	Amount	Country(s)

2005

	

7,659 a	

6,359	

1,254	

Israel	

7,613

	

46	

Stock data is treated as CBI pending further legal resolution	

Stock data is treated as CBI pending further legal resolution	

7,170b	

0c	

0c

	

443e

1 	Exempted by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol. Note that the
critical use for a particular year may be the sum of quantities
authorized by decision in more than one year.  

2	Where possible, national Governments should include quantities on hand
as of 1 January 2005 and for each year thereafter. National Governments
that are not able to estimate quantities on hand as of 1 January 2005
can track the subsequent inventory of methyl bromide produced for
critical uses (column L).

3	Carried forward as “Amount on hand at start of year” for next
year.

a	Total allowable new production and imports  for 2005 critical uses was
7,659 MT; additional amounts of stocks were allowable for critical use
in 2005 in the amount of  1,893 MT

b              This figure would have been higher but due to the
lateness of the decision on supplemental authorizations for 2005,
quantities of exempted material were not made available to the domestic
market in time for scheduled fumigations.

c             There is no destruction or export of U.S. critical use
methyl bromide. 

                   d	         The original formula in column L as per
Annex II of the Meeting Report is "H-I-J-K."  The USG could not apply
this formula because the confidentiality of data in column G, and 		    
    therefore column H, awaits legal resolution in domestic courts. 
Thus, the "amount on hand at end of year" in column L does not include
the amount that would otherwise be inserted in                          
                   	         column G; rather, it only refers to methyl
bromide produced or imported under the critical use exemption program.

e	US regulations do not permit the accumulation of stocks through the
critical use exemption.  Amounts on hand at end of year are deducted in
the year after the year in which the data was reported. The 443 MT of
CUE methyl bromide on hand at the end of 2005 will be deducted from
allowable new production/import in 2007.  This figure does not include
pre-2005 supplies of methyl bromide.