G/TBT/N/USA/1560  
10 January 2020  
(20-0308) 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:  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 
Department of Transportation (DOT) [1586]  
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 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicab le): 
Anthropomorphic test devices; Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed 
for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons 
and racing cars (HS 8703); Road vehicles in general (ICS 43.020), Crash p rotection and 
restraint systems (ICS 43.040.80), Diagnostic, maintenance and test equipment 
(ICS 43.180)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  
Anthropomorphic Test Devices, HIII 5 th Percentile Female Test Dummy; Incorporation by 
Reference (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking - This document proposes to 
revise the chest jacket and spine box specifications for the Hybrid III 5 th Percentile 
Female Test Dummy  
(HIII-5F) set forth in Part 572, Anthropomorphic Test Devices. The proposed jacket 
revisions  would resolve discrepancies between the jacket specifications in Subpart O and 
jackets available in the field, and ensure a sufficiently low level of variation between 
jackets fabricated by different manufacturers. The spine box revisions would eliminate a 
source of signal noise caused by fasteners within the box that may become loose. This 
rulemaking responds to a petition for rulemaking from the Alliance of Automobile 
Manufacturers.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems whe re 
applicable:  Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Protection of 
human health or safety  G/TBT/N/USA/1560  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• 84 Federal Register (FR) 70916, 26 December  2019; Title 49 Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) Part 572:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-12-26/html/2019 -27210.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-12-26/pdf/2019 -27210.pdf  
• Engineeri ng Change Proposal, Jacket and Spine Revisions to Subpart O, HIII -5F, 
November 2019, accessible from Regulations.gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=NHTSA -2019-0023-0002  
• SAE J2921 - H-III5F Chest Jacket Harmonization   
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  24 February 2020  
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/2020/TBT/USA/20_0353_00_e.pdf