Interpretation ID: nht73-5.16

DATE: 04/12/73

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; R. B. Dyson; NHTSA

TO: District Director of Customs

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter of March 15, 1973, to Mr. Armstrong asking "whether a hub cap with a wing type attachment is subject to Standard 211."

Standard No. 211 prohibits wheel discs, wheel nuts, and hub caps that incorporate winged projections. The item that you enclosed appears to be a wheel spinner which, when attached to a wheel disc or hub cap would create an assembly incorporating a winged projection in violation of Standard No. 211. The item itself is not literally prohibited by the standard, but it evidently has no function apart from this end use. I am therefore of the opinion, if the same source is separately shipping spinners and wheel discs/hub caps to which the spinner may be attached, that these items may be refused entry into the United States.

THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

BUREAU OF CUSTOMS LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

MAR 15 1973

Francis Armstrong, Director Office of Standards Enforcement Motor Vehicle Programs National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

A question has arisen as to whether a hub cap with a wing type attachment is subject to Standard 211 of the National Traffic Motor Vehicle Safety Act.

A sample of the subject hub cap is forwarded for your inspection and decision.

C. A. MCGONIGLE Senior Import Specialist

Encl.