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Notifying
Member: United States of America
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and
7.2):
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Agency
responsible: Consumer Product
Safety Commission [1408]
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
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Notified
under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ],
other: [X]
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4.
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Products
covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS
numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Residential garage door operators
Elements
of buildings (ICS 91.060).
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5.
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Title,
number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Safety Standard for Automatic Residential Garage Door Operators
(14 page(s), in English)
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Description
of content: The Consumer Product
Safety Commission (Commission, or CPSC) is amending its regulation, Safety
Standard for Automatic Residential Garage Door Operators, to reflect changes
made by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL), in the entrapment protection
provisions in UL's standard UL 325, Standard for Safety: Door, Drapery, Gate,
Louver, and Window Operators and Systems, Seventh Edition.
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Objective
and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection
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8.
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Relevant
documents: 83 Federal Register (FR)32566, 13 July
2018; Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 1211.
G/TBT/N/USA/1029
Residential garage door operators and G/TBT/N/USA/1029/Add.1.
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9.
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Proposed
date of adoption: 11
September 2018
Proposed date of entry into force: 11 September 2018
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10.
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Final
date for comments: 13 August 2018
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11.
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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/2018/TBT/USA/18_3841_00_e.pdf
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