G/TBT/N/CAN/531  
 
25 August 2017  
(17-4540) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English/French  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member : CANADA   
If applicable, name of local government involved  (Article 3.2 and 7.2) :  
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Health  
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 :  
Canada' s Notification Authority and Enquiry Point  
Global Affairs Canada  
Technical Barriers and Regulations Division  
111 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2  
Canada  
Telephone: (343)203 -4273 
Fax: (613)943 -0346 
E-mail: enquirypoint@international.gc.ca  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  ], 2.10.1 [ X], 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):  Corded Window 
Coverings (may includ e Consumer Products (not including food, therapeutics or 
cosmetics)) (ICS: 97.020, 97.140, 97.190, 97.200)  
5. Title, number of pages  and language(s)  of the notified document:  Corded Window 
Coverings Regulations (29 pages, in English and French)  
6. Descri ption of content:  The current Corded Window Covering Products Regulations , 
made under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act , would be repealed and replaced 
with the proposed Regulations that specify requirements for construction, performance, 
labelling an d other information, without reference to the national standard.  
The proposed Regulations would restrict the length of accessible cords and the size of 
loops that can be created to help eliminate the risk of strangulation. The proposed 
Regulations would re quire that any cord that can be reached must be too short to wrap 
around a one -year-old child’s neck (i.e. not more than 22 cm in length) or form a loop that 
can be pulled over a one -year-old child’s head (i.e. not more than 44 cm in perimeter). 
Cords that  cannot be reached would have to remain unreachable throughout the useful life 
of the product.  
Further to the above -mentioned restrictions, the proposed Regulations would require a 
warning on the product, packaging, instructions, and on associated advertis ements that 
speak to the hazards and specifications outlined above, with instructions to immediately 
remove the product should those hazards become present.  G/TBT/N/CAN/531  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale , including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
The objectiv e of the proposed Regulations is to help eliminate the strangulation hazard and 
to help reduce the rate of fatal strangulations associated with Corded Window Coverings by 
specifying requirements for construction, performance, labelling and other informatio n 
across all market segments.   
8. Relevant documents:  Canada Gazette , Part I, 17 June 2017, pages 2626 -2654 (available 
in English and French)   
9. Proposed date of adoption: Not stated  
Proposed date of entry into force: These Regulations would come into f orce on the day 
that, in the sixth month after the month in which they are published in the Canada Gazette, 
Part II, has the same calendar number as the day on which they are published or, if that 
sixth month has no day with that number, the last day of th at sixth month.  
10. Final date for comments:  21 October 2017  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point  [X] or address, telephone and fax 
number s and e mail and website address es, if available , of other body:   
The electronic version of the regulator y text can be downloaded at:  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p1/2017/2017 -06-17/html/reg7 -eng.php  
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp -pr/p1/2017/2017 -06-17/html/reg7 -fra.php