G/TBT/N/USA/1505  
18 July 2019  
(19-4784) 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 AME RICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (OEERE), 
Department of Energy (DOE) [1532]  
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 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applica ble):  
Dishwashers; Of the household type (HS 842211); Environmental protection 
(ICS 13.020), Kitchen equipment (ICS 97.040)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Energy 
Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Dishwashers, Grant of Petition 
for Rulemaking (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) received a petition from 
the Competitive Enterprise Insti tute (CEI) to define a new product class under the Energy 
Policy and Conservation Act, as amended (EPCA), for residential dishwashers. The new 
product class would cover dishwashers with a cycle time for the normal cycle of less than 
one hour from washing t hrough drying. DOE published this petition and request for 
comments in the Federal Register on 24 April 2018. Based upon its evaluation of the 
petition and careful consideration of the public comments, DOE has decided to grant this 
petition for rulemaking and propose a dishwasher product class with a cycle time for the 
normal cycle of less than one hour. DOE intends to consider appropriate energy and water 
use limits for such a product class, if adopted, in a separate rulemaking.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:   
• 84 Federal Register (FR) 33869, 16 July 2019; Title 10 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) Part 430:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-07-16/html/2019 -14545.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-07-16/pdf/2019 -14545.pdf  G/TBT/N/USA/1505  
 
- 2 - 
 
  • Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Dishwashers, 
Notification of Petition for Rulemaking published 24 April 2018:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2018-04-24/html/2018 -08521.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2018-04-24/pdf/2018 -08521.pdf   
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  16 September 2019  
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/2019/TBT/USA/19_4004_00_e.pdf