# WILLOWOOD USA LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2017 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600990989`
- **Case Number:** 04-2017-3251
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- WILLOWOOD USA LLC (settlement)
## Summary

10/3/16 - STOP SALE, USE, OR REMOVAL ORDER ISSUED.  ON OR ABOUT AUG 30, 2016, WILLOWOOD SUBMITTED A NOTICE OF ARRIVAL OF PESTICIDES AND DEVICES (NOA) TO EPA FOR THE IMPORTATION OF A SHIPMENT OF 40 BAGS OF THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT PESTICIDE PRODUCT, WILLOWOOD ETHOFUMESATE TECHNICAL, EACH BAG WEIGHING 1102.3 POUNDS. THE NOA NOTIFIED EPA THAT WILLOWOOD ETHOFUMESATE TECHNICAL WAS SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE ON OR AROUND SEPT 9, 2016 AT THE PORT OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON, SC.  THE NOA INCLUDED AN INACTIVE EPA FOREIGN PRODUCER ESTABLISHMENT NUMBER. ENCLOSED WITH THE NOA WAS A COPY OF THE LABEL FOR THE PESTICIDE PRODUCT BEING IMPORTED WHICH ALSO BORE THE SAME INCORRECT EPA FOREIGN PRODUCER ESTABLISHMENT NUMBER. ON SEPT 1, 2016, EPA REGION 4 INFORMED WILLOWOOD VIA EMAIL THAT THE NOA AND THE WILLOWOOD ETHOFUMESATE TECHNICAL PESTICIDE PRODUCT LABEL BORE AN INCORRECT EPA PRODUCER ESTABLISHMENT NUMBER.

ON SEPT 1, 2016, WILLOWOOD CONFIRMED IN AN EMAIL TO EPA THAT THE SHIPMENT OF WILLOWOOD ETHOFUMESATE TECHNICAL CONTINES PRODUCT LABELS WHICH BEAR AN INCORRECT EPA ESTABLISHMENT NUMBER.  ON OR AROUND SEPT 6, 2016, EPA PROVIDED TO WILLOWOOD THE NOA COMPLETED BY EPA. IN THAT NOA, EPA ADVISED U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION (CBP) THAT THE PESTICIDE SHIPMENT SHOULD BE DENIED DUE TO EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT THE PESTICIDE PRODUCT HAD BEEN PRODUCED IN AN UNREGISTERED FOREIGN PRODUCER ESTABLISHMENT.  IN A LETTER TO EPA REGION 4 DATED SEPT 14, 2016, WILLOWOOD CONFIRMED THAT THE EPA FOREIGN PRODUCER ESTABL

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