Lists of Pesticides, Chemicals and Substances Ineligible for Export Credit Insurance

ANNEX C

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:

List of banned and severely restricted pesticides under the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Program

  1. Aldrin 1
  2. Arsenic trioxide
  3. Asbestos, all forms (Interim)
  4. Benzene hexachloride[BHC]
  5. Binapacryl (Interim)
  6. 2,3,4,5-Bis(2-butylene)tetrahydro-2-furaldehyde [Repellent-11]
  7. Bromoxynil butyrate
  8. Cadmium compounds
  9. Calcium arsenate
  10. Captafol
  11. Carbofuran 1
  12. Carbon tetrachloride
  13. Chloranil
  14. Chlordane
  15. Chlordecone (kepone)
  16. Chlordimeform
  17. Chlorobenzilate
  18. Chloromethoxypropylmercuric acetate [CPMA]
  19. Copper arsenate
  20. Daminozide/alar 1
  21. DBCP
  22. DDT
  23. Dieldrin
  24. Dinoseb and salts
  25. Di(phenylmercury)dodecenylsuccinate [PMDS]
  26. DNOC (Interim)
  27. 1,2-dibromoethane ethylene dibromide - EDB)
  28. Ethylene dichloride (EDC) (Interim)
  29. Ethylene oxide (ETO) (Interim) agricultural uses only
  30. Endrin
  31. EPN
  32. Ethyl hexyleneglycol [6-12] 1
  33. Fluoroacetamide
  34. Heptachlor
  35. Hexachlorobenzene [HCB]
  36. Lead arsenate
  37. Leptophos
  38. Lindane
  39. Mercury compounds (mercurous chloride and mercuric chloride)
  40. Methamidophos
  41. Methyl parathion
  42. Mevinphos
  43. Mirex
  44. Monocrotophos
  45. Nitrofen (TOK)
  46. OMPA (octamethylpyrophosphoramide)
  47. Parathion (ethyl)
  48. Pentachlorophenol 2
  49. Phenylmercury acetate [PMA]
  50. Phenylmercuric oleate [PMO]
  51. Phosphamidon
  52. Potassium 2,4,5-trichlorophenate [2,4,5-TCP]
  53. Pyriminil [Vacor]
  54. Safrole
  55. Silvex
  56. Sodium arsenate 1
  57. Sodium arsenite
  58. TDE
  59. Terpene polychlorinates [Strobane]
  60. Thallium sulfate
  61. Toxaphene (chlorinated camphene) (Interim)
  62. Tributyltin compounds 1
  63. 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid [2,4,5-T]
  64. Vinyl chloride

1 Severely Restricted.
2 Pentachlorophenol is still registered for use in the U.S. as a wood preservative.

Exclusion List of industrial and consumer chemicals under the Montreal Protocol and other conventions

  1. CFC - 11
  2. CFC - 12
  3. CFC - 13
  4. CFC - 111
  5. CFC - 112
  6. CFC - 113
  7. CFC - 114
  8. CFC - 115
  9. CFC - 211
  10. CFC - 212
  11. CFC - 213
  12. CFC - 214
  13. CFC - 215
  14. CFC - 216
  15. CFC - 217
  16. Halon 1211
  17. Halon 1301
  18. Halon 2402
  19. Carbon tetrachloride
  20. Methyl chloroform
  21. Isomers of chemicals 1-20, other than 1,1,2-trichloroethane
  22. Polychlorinated biphenyls
  23. 1-chloro-2-bromoethane
  24. Hexamethylphosphoramide
  25. Methyl n-butyl ketone
  26. Pentachloroethane
  27. Urethane
  28. Tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate
  29. Polybrominated biphenyls
  30. Asbestos