G/TBT/N/USA/1814  
16 December 2021  
(21-9415) 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 Aviation Administration (FAA) [1843]  
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 i f 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):  Single -
occupant, passenger oblique seats, with airbag devices and 3 -point restraints; Test 
conditions and procedures in gen eral (ICS 19.020), On -board equipment and instruments 
(ICS 49.090), Passenger and cabin equipment (ICS 49.095)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Special 
Conditions: The Boeing Company, Model 737 -10 Airplane; Dynamic Test Requirements 
for Single -Occupant, Oblique (Side -Facing) Seats Installed at a 49 -Degrees With Airbag 
Devices and 3 -Point Restraints (4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Notice of proposed special conditions - This action proposes 
special cond itions for The Boeing Company  (Boeing) Model 737 -10 airplane. This airplane 
will have a novel or  unusual design feature when compared to the state of 
technology  envisioned in the airworthiness standards for transport -category  airplanes. 
This design feature  is single -occupant, passenger oblique  seats, with airbag devices and 
3-point restraints, installed at 49  degrees relative to the airplane cabin bow -to-stern 
centerline. The  applicable airworthiness regulations do not contain adequate 
or appropriate safety  standards for this design feature. These proposed  special conditions 
contain the additional safety standards that the  Administrator considers necessary to 
establish a level of safety  equivalent to that established by the existing airworthiness 
standards.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  86 Federal Register (FR) 71183, 15 December 2021; Title 14 
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 25:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-12-15/html/2021 -27078.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-12-15/pdf/2021 -27078.pdf  
This notice of proposed special conditions is identified by Docket Number FAA -2021-
1023.   The Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at G/TBT/N/USA/1814  
 
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  https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FAA -2021-1023/document  and provides access to 
primary documents as well as comments received. 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  by or before 4pm Eastern 
Time on 31 January 2022.   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:  31 January 2022  
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_7861_00_e.pdf