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31 May 2021  
(21-4462) 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:  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [1765]  
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 indicated  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 [   ], other  [X]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Broadband 
and mobile services, wireless telecommunications; Quality (ICS 03.120), 
Radiocommunications (ICS 33.060), Mobile services (ICS 33.070)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Emission Limits 
for the 24.25 -27.5 GHz Band (2 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Requests for comments - In this document, The Office of 
Engineering a nd Technology (OET) and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) 
seek comment on implementing certain of the decisions of the World Radiocommunication 
Conference held by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2019 (WRC -19) 
regarding the 24. 25-27.5 GHz band. Specifically, OET and WTB seek comment on aligning 
the FCC's rules with the unwanted emissions limits into the passive 23.6 -24.0 GHz band 
that were adopted at WRC -19. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems wh ere 
applicable:  Quality requirements; Harmonization; Cost saving and productivity 
enhancement  
8. Relevant documents:   
• 86 Federal Register (FR) 28522, 27 May 2021; Title 47 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) Parts 2 and 30:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-05-27/html/2021 -10536.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-05-27/pdf/2021 -10536.pdf  
WTO Members and  their stakeholders are asked to submit comments to the  USA TBT 
Enquiry Point . Comments received  by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and 
their stakeholders will be  shared with the regulator (FCC) and will also be submitted to 
the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS)  if received within the comment per iod. G/TBT/N/USA/1736  
 
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  Comments and other information posted for this filing (Docket 21 -186) are accessible 
from the ECFS at  https://www.fcc.gov/document/oet -wtb-seek-comment -emission -
limits -2425-275-ghz-band. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  28 June 2021  
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/2021/TBT/USA/21_3727_00_e.pdf  
 