...with the Montreal Protocol's quarantine and preshipment provisions, the Administrator shall exempt the production, importation, and consumption of methyl...State, or local sanitation or food protection standard. (6) CRITICAL USES.— To the extent consistent with the Montreal Protocol, the Administrator, after...

...production and importation will be reduced from 1991 levels by 25% in 1999, by 50% in 2001, by 70% in 2003, and completely phased out by 2005. Some uses...be made for critical agricultural uses. The United States EPA and the United General Overview Nations Environmental Programme have identified alternatives...

...with the Montreal Protocol's quarantine and preshipment provisions, the Administrator shall exempt the production, importation, and consumption of methyl...State, or local sanitation or food protection standard. (6) Critical uses To the extent consistent with the Montreal Protocol, the Administrator, after notice...

...September 1997 at the 9th meeting of Parties to the Montreal Protocol. Section 764, para. 5, exempted production, importation, and consumption of methyl...commodities entering or leaving the United States for purposes of compliance with USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection requirements or any other food...

...the EPA "shall exempt" from the production and consumption phaseout quantities of methyl bromide used "to fumigate commodities entering or leaving the United...or local sanitation or food protection standard." The EPA's implementing regulation provide a general exemption from the methyl bromide production and...