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20 May 2022  
(22-3893) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) [1895]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indica ted if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  ], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other  [X]: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission seeks comments on two 
petitions for rulemaking in reference to their existing work on the issues, relevant ASTM 
standard(s), and performance requirements.  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherw ise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Play yards 
and play yard mattresses; Domestic safety (ICS code(s): 13.120); Equipment for children 
(ICS code(s): 97.190)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Petitions 
Requesting Rulemaking To Amend the Safety Standard for Play Yards To Require a 
Minimum Thickness for Play Yard Mattresses, and To Standardize the Size of Play Yards 
and Play Yard Mattresses; Request for Comments; (2 page(s) , in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of petitions for rulemaking - The U.S. Consumer Product 
Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) received on 29 November 2021 two petitions 
regarding play yards and play yard mattresses. These petitions seek a  rulemaking to 
amend the Commission's regulation, Safety Standard for Play Yards, 16 CFR part 1221 , 
to address the hazard of infants becoming entrapped between th e edge of a play yard 
and the play yard mattress and suffocating ("gap entrapment hazard"). The Commission 
invites written comments concerning these petitions, accessible online at 
https://downloads.regulations.gov/CPSC -2022-0015-0002/content.pdf  and 
https://downloads.regulations.gov/CPSC -2022-0015-0002/attachment_1.pdf .  
7. Objective and r ationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
87 Federal Register (FR) 30436, 19 May 2022; Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 
Chapter II:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-05-19/html/2022 -10293.htm  G/TBT/N/USA/1866  
 
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  https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2022-05-19/pdf/2022 -10293.pdf  
This notice of petitions for rulemaking is identified by Docket Number CPSC -2022-0015. 
The Docket Folder  is available from Regulations.gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/CPSC -2022-0015/document  and provides access to 
primary and supporting documents as well as comments received . Documents are also 
accessible from Regulations.gov  by searching the Docket Number. WTO Members and 
their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT Enquiry  Point by or 
before 4pm Eastern Time  on 18 July 2022. Comments received by the USA TBT Enquiry 
Point from WTO  Members and their stakeholders will be shared with the regulator and will 
also be submitted to the Docket  on Regulations.gov if received within the comment 
period.  
G/TBT/N/USA/564 and subsequent addenda  - Safety Standards for Full -Size Baby Cribs 
and Non -Full-Size Baby Cribs identified by Docket Numbers CPSC -2010-0075 and CPSC -
2019-0025 
G/TBT/N/USA/650 and subsequent ad denda  - Safety Standard for Play Yards identified 
by Docket Numbers CPSC -2011-0064 and CPSC -2019-0025 
G/TBT/N/USA/1662 and G/TBT/N/USA/1662/Add.1  - Safety Standard for Crib Mattresses 
identified by Docket Number CPSC -2020-0023 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  18 July 2022  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/USA/22_355 4_00_e.pdf  
 