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Notifying
Member: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
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Agency
responsible: US Department of
Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
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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): Meat (including
Siluriformes fish and fish products), poultry, and egg products
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Regions
or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
[X] All trading partners
[ ] Specific regions or
countries:
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Title of
the notified document: Import
Presented Refused and Import Refusal Reason datasets.
Language(s): English.
Number of pages: 11
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FSIS-2014-0032/
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_00_e.pdf
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_01_e.pdf
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_02_e.pdf
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_03_e.pdf
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Description
of content: The US Department of
Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) plans to replace the
existing Import Refusals and Import Volume datasets currently available on
the FSIS website, Import and Export Data page
with two new datasets, Import Presented Refused and Import Refusal Reason.
The existing
Import Refusals dataset is published at the lot-level, including the foreign
processing establishment, whereas the existing Import Volume dataset is
published at the Country, Species, Process Category, Product Category, and
Product Group level. The new Import Presented Refused dataset will include
lot-level information for import volume along with import refusal data at the
lot-level, making it easier to compare the proportion of weight refused to
weight presented. Import Refusal Reason will be provided as a secondary
dataset, providing each refusal reason as its own row to facilitate analysis.
Datasets will
be updated monthly and will be posted the third Friday of each month, with
the first release occurring on 27 September 2024, in lieu of the Import
Refusals and Import Volume datasets. Data will be broken out by fiscal year
(FY), starting with data from FY 2014 (starting on 1 October 2013) through
the most recent FY.
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Objective
and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ]
protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from
other damage from pests.
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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the
standard:
[ ] Codex
Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial
number of Codex standard or related text):
[ ] World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or
Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number):
[ ] International
Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number):
[X] None
Does this proposed regulation conform to
the relevant international standard?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and
why it deviates from the international standard:
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Other
relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/inspection/import-export/international-reports/import-and-export-data (available in English)
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Proposed
date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): 27 September 2024
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): 27 September 2024
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Proposed
date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy):
27 September 2024
[X] Trade facilitating
measure
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Final
date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 13 September 2024
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National Notification
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address
(if available) of other body:
For further
information contact:
Damon
Ranftle, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USDA FSIS Office of Planning,
Analysis, and Risk Management by telephone at +(202) 937 4193, e-mail: Damon.Ranftle@usda.gov
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Text(s) available from: [ ] National
Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and
e-mail address (if available) of other body:
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FSIS-2014-0032/
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_00_e.pdf§
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_01_e.pdf
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_02_e.pdf
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/USA/24_04683_03_e.pdf
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