G/TBT/N/USA/1767  
25 August 2021  
(21-6407) 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 Communications Commission (FCC) [1796]  
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 applicable):  Radar 
sensors in 60 GHz band; Domestic safety (ICS 13.120), Radiocommunications (ICS 
33.060), Mobile services (ICS 33.070)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  FCC Seeks To 
Enable State -of-the-Art Radar Sensors in 60 GHz Band (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Proposed rule - In this document, the Commission proposes to 
revise the Commission's rules to provide expanded operational flexibility to unlicensed 
field disturbance sensor (FDS) devices (e.g., radars) that operate in the 57 -64 GHz band 
(60 GHz band). The Commission's proposal recognizes the increasing practicality of usi ng 
mobile radar devices in the 60 GHz band to perform innovative and life -saving functions, 
including gesture control, detection of unattended children in vehicles, and monitoring of 
vulnerable medical patients, and it is designed to stimulate the developm ent of new 
products and services in a wide variety of areas to include, for example, personal safety, 
autonomous vehicles, home automation, environmental control, and healthcare 
monitoring, while also ensuring coexistence among unlicensed FDS devices and c urrent 
and future unlicensed communications devices in the 60 GHz band.  
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) 46661, 19 August 2021; Title 47 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Part 15: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/p kg/FR -2021-08-19/html/2021 -
16637.htm   
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2021-08-19/pdf/2021 -16637.pdf   
The filings associated with this action are availab le online from the FCC's Electronic 
Comment Filing System ( ECFS) at 
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?pr oceedings_name=21 -264.  The full -text of the G/TBT/N/USA/1767  
 
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  Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in ET Docket No. 21 -264, FCC 21 -
83, adopted on 13 July 2021 and released on 14 July 2021 is available for public inspection 
and can be downloaded at https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc -seeks -enable -state-art-
radar -sensors -60-ghz-band-0, or by using the search function for ET.    
WTO Members and their stakeho lders are asked to submit comments to the USA TBT 
Enquiry Point .  Comments received within the comment period will be submitted to the 
FCC at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings  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:  20 September 2021; Comments are due on or before 20 
September 2021; reply comments are due on or before 18 October 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_5367_00_e.pdf