G/TBT/N/USA/1716  
12 April 2021  
(21-3012) 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) [1745]  
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 indicat ed 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 applicable):  
Upholstered furniture; Protection against fire (ICS 13.220), Furniture (ICS 97.140)  
5. Title, number of pages and language (s) of the notified document:  Standard for 
the Flammability of Upholstered Furniture (3 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed rulemaking - The Consumer Product Safety 
Commission (Commission or CPSC) is proposing to codify in t he Code of Federal 
Regulations the statutory requirements for the flammability of upholstered furniture under 
the COVID -19 Regulatory Relief and Work From Home Safety Act. This Act mandates that 
CPSC promulgate California Technical Bulletin 117 -2013 as a f lammability standard for 
upholstered furniture under section 4 of the Flammable Fabrics Act. In the "Rules and 
Regulations" section in this issue of the Federal Register, the Commission is issuing this 
determination as a direct final rule. If we receive no  significant adverse comment in 
response to the direct final rule, we will not take further action on this proposed rule.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Protection of 
human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
86 Federal Register (FR) 18491, 9 April 2021; Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Part 1640:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-04-09/html/20 21-06976.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-04-09/pdf/2021 -06976.pdf  
This notice of proposed rulemaking is identified by Docket Number CPSC -2021-0007. The 
Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at 
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/CPSC -2021-0007/document  and provides access to 
primary documents as well as comments rec eived. 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 . Comments received by the G/TBT/N/USA/1716  
 
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  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.  
Standard for the Flammability of Upholstered Furniture, Direct Final Rule published 9 
April 2021 will be notified as Add.1:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-04-09/html/2021 -06977.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-04-09/pdf/2021 -06977.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  10 May 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_2613_00_e.pdf