---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 1501.3"
title: "16"
number: "1501.3"
heading: "Exemptions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/1501.3"
---

# §1501.3. Exemptions.


The following articles are exempt from this regulation (§§ [1500.18(a)(9)](/cfr/16/1500.18.md?p=a-9) and [1501.4](/cfr/16/1501.4.md) below):

- (a) Balloons;
- (b) Books and other articles made of paper;
- (c) Writing materials such as crayons, chalk, pencils, and pens;
- (d) Children's clothing and accessories, such as shoe lace holders and buttons;
- (e) Grooming, feeding, and hygiene products, such as diaper pins and clips, barrettes, toothbrushes, drinking glasses, dishes and eating utensils;
- (f) Phonograph records;
- (g) Modeling clay and similar products;
- (h) Fingerpaints, watercolors, and other paint sets;
- (i) Rattles (as defined at [16 CFR 1510.2](/cfr/16/1510.2.md)); and
- (j) Pacifiers (as defined at [16 CFR 1511.2(a)](/cfr/16/1511.2.md?p=a)).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 2(f)(1)(D), (q)(1)(A), (s), 3(e)(1), and 10; 74 Stat. 372, 374, 375 as amended; 80 Stat. 1304-05, 83 Stat. 187-89 (15 U.S.C. 1261, 1262, 1269).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 34903, June 15, 1979, unless otherwise noted.