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Commercial Information Circulars

24-hour hotline : 23 922 922

e-mail address : enquiry@tid.gov.hk

Ref. : EIC 111/2/21

1 November 2017

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 950/2017

US : Prohibition of Children's Toys and Child Care Articles Containing Specified Phthalates

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission published in the Federal Register (FR) of 27 October 2017 a final rule prohibiting children's toys and child care articles that contain specified phthalates, which will take effect on 25 April 2018.

DETAILS

2.The final rule prohibits children's toys and child care articles that contain concentrations of more than 0.1 percent of diisononyl phthalate (DINP), diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP), di-n-pentyl phthalate (DPENP), di-n-hexyl phthalate (DHEXP), and dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP). For the sake of clarity, the final rule restates the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA)'s permanent prohibition on children's toys and child care articles that contain concentrations of more than 0.1 percent of di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), or butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) as set out in Section 108 of the CPSIA. Relevant FR notice is available at:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-10-27/pdf/2017-23267.pdf.

ENQUIRIES

3.For enquiries concerning this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Jasper LAM)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.