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Subject: Fw: Comment on G/SPS/N/USA/690/Add.3 and G/SPS/N/USA/690/Add.4
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                      sps@aqsiq.gov.cn                                                                     
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                      PM                       Subject:  Comment on G/SPS/N/USA/690/Add.3 and              
                                                G/SPS/N/USA/690/Add.4 from China                           
                                                                                                           




Comment on G/SPS/N/USA/690/Add.3 and G/SPS/N/USA/690/Add.4 from China

The following comment is corresponding to documents with DOCKET Number
2002N-0278
(G/SPS/N/USA/Add.3) and Docket No. 2003D-0554(G/SPS/N/USA/690/Add.4).

1.    Suppose one exporter exports one container of food to United Stated.
In
this container, it contains one ton of fishes and one ton of vegetable
products,
and vegetable product has two different package types, how many prior
notices
should we submit?
2.    Are EMS, FEDERAL EXPRESS, DHL and TNT international mail?
3.    Regarding food category, Chinese food is very much different from
western food and is difficult to classify them according to western food
category
system. It is better to publish a guidance on how to put Chinese food into
western food category system.
4.    When foods arrive in American port, the carrier should bring the copy
of
the prior notice confirmation and the imported food together to customs.
Therefore, the submitter should send the prior notice confirmation to
carrier, we
are wondering to whom the submitter should send, the carrier company or the
vessel that transport the imported food to USA?
5.    In interim regulation of prior notice, if changes in estimated
quantity,
anticipated arrival, planned shipment information does not require a new
prior
notice. Dose it also means that we do not need to revise them?