G/TBT/N/CHN/1797  
9 February 2024  
(24-1141) 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:  CHINA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
State Administration for Market Regulation (Standardization Administration of the P.R.C.)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notific ation shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN  where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  all toys 
(HS code(s): 95); (ICS code(s): 97.200.50)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  National 
Standard of the P.R.C., Safety of toys —Part 4: Migration of certain elements; (28 
page(s), in Chinese)  
6. Description of content:  This document specifies maximum acceptable levels and 
methods of sampling, extraction and determination for the migration of the element s 
antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and selenium from toy 
materials and from parts of toys.  
Maximum acceptable levels are specified for the migration of the elements from the 
following toy materials:  
— coatings of paints, varnishe s, lacquers, printing inks, polymers and similar coatings;  
— polymeric and similar material, including laminates, whether textile -reinforced or not, 
but excluding other textiles and non -woven textiles;  
— paper and paperboard;  
— natural, artificial or synthetic textiles;  
— glass/ceramic/metallic materials;  
— other materials, whether mass -coloured or not (e.g. wood, fibreboard, hardboard, bone 
and leather);  
— materials intended to leave a trace (e.g. the graphite materials in pencils and li quid ink 
in pens);  
— pliable modelling materials, including modelling clays and gels;  
— paints to be used as such in the toy, including finger paints, varnishes, lacquers, glazing 
powders and similar material in solid or liquid form.  G/TBT/N/CHN/1797  
 
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  The requirements in th is document apply to the following toys and toy components and 
toy materials:  
— all intended food and oral contact toys, cosmetic toys and writing instruments 
categorized as toys, irrespective of any age grading or recommended age labelling;  
— all toys int ended for or suitable for children under 72 months of age;  
— accessible coatings, irrespective of any age grading or recommended age labelling;  
— accessible liquids, pastes, gels (e.g. liquid paints, modelling compounds), irrespective 
of any age grading or  recommended age labelling.  
Packaging materials are not included, unless they are intended to be kept, e.g. boxes, 
containers, or unless they are part of the toy or designed to have play value.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  36 months after approval  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
WTO/TBT National Notification and Enquiry Center  of the People's Republic of China  
Tel：+86 10 57954633/ 57954627  
E_mail: tbt@customs.gov.cn  
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