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7 February 2022  
(22-0901) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Department of 
Agriculture (USDA) [1861]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding  the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other  [X]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Labeling 
claims on meat (beef and pork) products; Public information symbols (ICS 01.080.10), 
Meat and meat products (ICS 67.120.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Notice of 
Request for a New Information Collection: A nalyzing Consumers' Value of "Product of 
USA" Labeling Claims (3 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice and request for comments - In accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and  Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
regulations , the Food Safety and  Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing its intention to 
collect  information using a web -based survey/experiment to help gauge U.S. 
consumer  awareness and understanding of current "Product of USA" labeling  claims on 
meat (beef and por k) products and U.S. consumer willingness to pay  (WTP) for meat 
products labeled as "Product of USA" using the current  and potentially revised definitions 
of the claim. FSIS also intends to  collect information on U.S. consumer understanding of 
other "USDA"  labeling on meat products, such as the "USDA Choice" label and the  USDA 
mark of inspection. This is a new information collection with an  estimated annual burden 
of 1,815.1 hours.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling  
8. Relevant documents:   
87 Federal Register (FR) 5455, 1 February 2022:   
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-02-01/html/2022 -02042.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-02-01/pdf/2022 -02042.pdf  
This notice and request for comments is identified by Docket Number FSIS -2021-0031. 
The Docket Folder is available from Regulations.gov 
at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FSIS -2021-0031/document  and provides access G/TBT/N/USA/1832  
 
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  to primary documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible 
from Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. WTO Members and their 
stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the  USA TBT Enquiry Point  by or before 
4pm Eastern Time  on 4 April 2022. Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point 
from WTO Members and their stakeholders will be shared with the regulator and will also 
be submitted to the  Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the comment period.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  4 April 2022  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/USA/22_1411_00_e.pdf  
 