 WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/832/Add.1 
20 July 2004 
 (04-3116) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
 
  The following communication, received on 15 July 2004, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the United States
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Classical Swine Fever Status in Chile  
 
 The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Serv ice (APHIS) is amending the regulations for 
importing animals and animal products by adding Chile to the list of regions APHIS recognizes as free of classical swine fever (CSF).  APHIS is taking this action at the request of the Government of 
Chile and after conducting a risk evaluation that indicat es that Chile is free of this disease.  APHIS is 
also adding Chile to a list of CSF-free regions who se exports of live swine, pork, and pork products to 
the United States must meet certain certification re quirements to ensure their freedom from CSF, and 
amending those requirements to accommodate the additi on of Chile to the list.  These actions relieve 
restrictions on the importation into the United Stat es of pork, pork products, live swine, and swine 
semen from Chile while continuing to protect agains t the introduction of this disease into the United 
States. 
  The effective date of the final rule is 28 July 2004. 
 
 On 13 November 2003, APHIS published in the Federal Register (68 FR 64274-64282, 
Docket No. 03-009-1) a proposal to amend the regul ations by adding Chile to the list of regions 
APHIS recognizes as free of CSF. APHIS also proposed  to add Chile to a list of CSF-free regions 
whose exports of live swine, pork, and pork products to the United States must meet certain certification requirements to ensure their freedom from CSF, and to amend those requirements to 
accommodate the addition of Chile to the list.  In addition, APHIS proposed to amend those 
certification requirements to require, for pork and pork  products from a region listed in Sec.  94.24, an 
additional statement that the swine from which th e pork and pork products were derived have not 
lived in a region affected with CSF.  
 The final rule was published in the Federa l Register: 13 July 2004 (Volume 69, Number 
133)Page 41915-41920.  The final rule can be viewed at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-
bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2004_r egister&docid=fr13jy04-3  or 
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor/all.html  
  This document can be obtained from – United States SPS Enquiry Point/Notification Point, 
[USDA/FAS/ FSTD, ATTN: Julie Morin, South Ag riculture Building, Stop 1027, 1400 Independence 
Ave. S.W., Washington DC 20250, Tel:  202 729- 4051;  Fax:  202 690 0677;  E-mail:  FSTD@FAS. 
USDA.GOV] 
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