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WTO notification · TBT

United StatesProposed measure, may since have been adopted

Machinery and mechanical appliances; Vehicles

Official title

Resetting NHTSA's Fuel Economy Program: Commercial Medium- and Heavy-Duty On-Highway Vehicles and Work Trucks

The United States notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 1 September 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Commercial medium- and heavy-duty (MDHD) on-highway vehicles, work trucks, heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans, vocational vehicles, semi-trailers/tractors, and heavy-duty engines; Spark-ignition reciprocating piston engine, of a kind used for vehicles of chapter 87, of a cylinder capacity > 1.000 cm³

HS codes
  • 84 · Machinery and mechanical appliances, boilers, nuclear reactors; parts thereof
    • 840734 Spark-ignition reciprocating piston engine, of a kind used for vehicles of chapter 87, of a cylinder capacity > 1.000 cm³
    • 840820 Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine 'diesel or semi-diesel engine', for the propulsion of vehicles of chapter 87
  • 87 · Vehicles; other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
    • 87012 Road tractors for semi-trailers:
    • 8702 Motor vehicles for the transport of >= 10 persons, incl. driver
    • 8704 Motor vehicles for the transport of goods, incl. chassis with engine and cab
    • 8705 Special purpose motor vehicles (other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods), e.g. breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire…
Notifying member
United States(United States of America)
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 1 September 2026. Check WTO ePing or the United States for its current status.
Objectives
  • Protection of the environment
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/USA/2320

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/USA/2320; it forwards comments to the United States.

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What the notification says

Interpretive rule - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is issuing this interpretive rule regarding the scope of its authority to set fuel economy standards for commercial medium- and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles and work trucks. This rule describes NHTSA's authority to set vehicle standards, which does not include the authority to set separate standards for engines. NHTSA will review its existing standards applicable to commercial medium- and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles and work trucks for consistency with this interpretation in a separate rulemaking. Pending the rulemaking process, NHTSA will exercise its enforcement authority with regard to affected standards in accordance with the interpretation set forth in this rule.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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