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27 September 2023  
(23-6443) 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) [2083]  
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 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Nursing 
pillows; Quality (ICS code(s): 03.120); 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:  Safety Standard 
for Nursing Pillows; (23 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking - The Danny Keysar Child 
Product Safety Notification Act, section 104 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement 
Act of 2008 (CPSIA) , requires the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 
(Commission or CPSC) to promulgate consumer product safety standards for durable 
infant or toddler products. The Commission is proposing a safety standard for nursing 
pillows. The Commission is also proposing to amend CPSC's consumer registration 
requirements to identifynursing pillows as durable infant or toddler products and 
proposing to amend CPSC's list of notice of requirements (NORs) to include such nursing 
pillows. This proposed rule would help ensure that consum ers continue to have access to 
nursing pillows for feeding while reducing hazards that have been identified for this 
product category.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; P revention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
88 Federal Register (FR) 65865, 26 September 2023; Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Parts 1112 , 1130 and 1242: 
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-09-26/html/2023 -20156.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-09-26/pdf/2023 -20156.pdf  G/TBT/N/USA/2052  
 
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  This notice of proposed rulemaking is identified by Docket Number CPSC -2023-0037. The 
Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at  
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/CPSC -2023-0037/document  and provides access to 
primary and supporting documents as well as comments received. Do cuments 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 27 November 2023. 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.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  27 November 2023  
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/2023/TBT/USA/23_12636_00_e.pdf  
 