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Environment | Environment Procedures and Guidelines
Annex C
Lists of Pesticides, Chemicals and Substances Ineligible for Export Credit Insurance
The export of pesticides, chemicals and substances may be controlled under any of several U.S. statutory and regulatory programs, and under international convention and treaty. Export-Import Bank considers the following ineligible for export credit insurance or financing:
Table 1: List of banned and severely restricted pesticides under the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Program
- Aldrin 1
- Arsenic trioxide
- Asbestos, all forms (Interim)
- Benzene hexachloride[BHC]
- Binapacryl (Interim)
- 2,3,4,5-Bis(2-butylene)tetrahydro-2-furaldehyde [Repellent-11]
- Bromoxynil butyrate
- Cadmium compounds
- Calcium arsenate
- Captafol
- Carbofuran 1
- Carbon tetrachloride
- Chloranil
- Chlordane
- Chlordecone (kepone)
- Chlordimeform
- Chlorobenzilate
- Chloromethoxypropylmercuric acetate [CPMA]
- Copper arsenate
- Daminozide/alar 1
- DBCP
- DDT
- Dieldrin
- Dinoseband salts
- Di(phenylmercury)dodecenylsuccinate [PMDS]
- DNOC (Interim)
- 1,2-dibromoethane ethylene dibromide - EDB)
- Ethylene dichloride (EDC) (Interim)
- Ethylene oxide (ETO) (Interim) agricultural uses only
- Endrin
- EPN
- Ethyl hexyleneglycol [6-12] 1
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- Fluoroacetamide
- Heptachlor
- Hexachlorobenzene [HCB]
- Lead arsenate
- Leptophos
- Lindane
- Mercury compounds (mercurous chloride and mercuric chloride)
- Methamidophos
- Methyl parathion
- Mevinphos
- Mirex
- Monocrotophos
- Nitrofen (TOK)
- OMPA (octamethylpyrophosphoramide)
- Parathion (ethyl)
- Pentachlorophenol 2
- Phenylmercury acetate [PMA]
- Phenylmercuric oleate [PMO]
- Phosphamidon
- Potassium 2,4,5-trichlorophenate [2,4,5-TCP]
- Pyriminil [Vacor]
- Safrole
- Silvex
- Sodium arsenate1
- Sodium arsenite
- TDE
- Terpene polychlorinates [Strobane]
- Thallium sulfate
- Toxaphene (chlorinated camphene) (Interim)
- Tributyltin compounds1
- 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid [2,4,5-T]
- Vinyl chloride
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1 Severely Restricted.
2 Pentachlorophenol is still registered for use in the U.S. as a wood preservative. |
Table 2: Exclusion List of industrial and consumer chemicals under the Montreal Protocol and other conventions
- CFC - 11
- CFC - 12
- CFC - 13
- CFC - 111
- CFC - 112
- CFC - 113
- CFC - 114
- CFC - 115
- CFC - 211
- CFC - 212
- CFC - 213
- CFC - 214
- CFC - 215
- CFC - 216
- CFC - 217
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- Halon 1211
- Halon 1301
- Halon 2402
- Carbon tetrachloride
- Methyl chloroform
- Isomers of chemicals 1-20, other than 1,1,2-trichloroethane
- Polychlorinated biphenyls
- 1-chloro-2-bromoethane
- Hexamethylphosphoramide
- Methyl n-butyl ketone
- Pentachloroethane
- Urethane
- Tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate
- Polybrominated biphenyls
- Asbestos
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Updated: August 22, 2008
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