G/TBT/N/USA/1446  
 
18 March 2019  
(19-1637) 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:  Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [1471]  
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 [   ], 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):  Leather 
and imitation leather products; Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles 
(HS 64); Trunks, suit -cases, vanity -cases, executive -cases, brief -cases, school satchels, 
spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical in strument cases, gun cases, 
holsters and similar containers; travelling -bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet 
bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping bags, wallets, purses, map -cases, cigarette -cases, 
tobacco -pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle -cases, jewellery boxes, powder -boxes, 
cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of 
plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly 
covered with such materials or with paper  (HS 4202); Articles of apparel and clothing 
accessories, of leather or of composition leather (HS 4203); Articles of leather or of 
composition leather, of a kind used in machinery or mechanical appliances or for other 
technical uses (HS 4204); Other artic les of leather or of composition leather (HS 4205); 
Quality (ICS 03.120), Leather technology (ICS 59.140), Clothes (ICS 61.020), Footwear 
(ICS 61.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Guides for 
Select Leather and Imitat ion Leather Products (3 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") 
requests public comments on its Guides for Select Leather and Imitation Leather Products 
("Leather Guides" or "Guides"). The Commi ssion is soliciting the comments as part of the 
Commission's systematic review of all current Commission regulations and guides.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevent ion of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Quality requirements  G/TBT/N/USA/1446  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• 84 Federal Register (FR) 8045, 6 March 2019; Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Part 24.    
• G/TBT/N/USA/274 and G/TBT/N/USA/274/Add.1 - Guides for Select Leather and 
Imitation Leather Products  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  22 April 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_1522_00_e.pdf