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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/USA/814
7 October 2003
(03-5297)
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 Thiamethoxam
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:   Thiamethoxam;
Pesticide Tolerances, (available in English, 9 pages).
6. Description of content:  This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues of
thiamethoxam and its metabolite in or on imported coffee, pecan, stone fruit, succulentbean, and sunflower.  Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. and the Interregional Research
Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996.
The tolerances are established for combined residues of thiamethoxam, 3-[(2-chloro-5-
thiazolyl)methyl]tetrahydro-5-methyl-N-nitro-4H-1,3,5-oxadiazin-4-imine and itsmetabolite (N-(2-chloro-thiazol-5-ylmethyl)-N'-methyl-N'-nitro-guanidine), in or on
imported coffee at 0.05 ppm, pecan at 0.02 ppm, stone fruit group 12 at 0.5 ppm, succulent
bean at 0.02 ppm, and sunflower 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
damage from pests
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:fr17se03-12,
Federal Register:  17 September 2003 (Volume 68, Number 180) Pages 54386-54394;
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2003/September/Day-17/p23822.htm;  (available
in English)
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Not applicable
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  17 September 2003G/SPS/N/USA/814
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12. Final date for comments:  17 November 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 Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.  opp-docket@epa.govNote:  Identify docket name "OPP-2003-0306" 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:
Ms. Roseanne Freese, United States SPS Enquiry Point Officer, USDA Foreign
Agricultural Service, Food Safety and Technical Services Division, Stop 1027,
Washington, DC  20250.  Tel:  (202) 690-1642, Fax:  (202) 720 7772,E-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov