GB/T 14748-2025Safety of child care articles - Wheeled child conveyances (English PDF)

Foreword

This document was issued on 5 October 2025 by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China, and comes into force on 1 November 2026.

It replaces GB 14748-2006, Safety requirements for wheeled child conveyances. With this revision the subject moves from a mandatory national standard (GB) to a recommended one (GB/T). Until 1 November 2026 the standard in force remains GB 14748-2006.

Classification: CCS Y 57, toys.

1 Scope

This document specifies the safety requirements for wheeled child conveyances, and describes the corresponding test methods.

This document is applicable to two types of wheeled child conveyances for one or more children, with a single weight of 15 kg or less, or 15 kg or more but up to 22 kg. It also covers the integrated platform for children with a maximum weight of 20 kg to stand.

This document is not applicable to toy pushchairs, sports pushchairs, motor-driven pushchairs or pushchairs designed for other special purposes.

2 Normative references

The following normative documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies; for undated references, the latest edition, including any amendments, applies.

GB/T 2912.1 Textiles - Determination of formaldehyde - Part 1: Free and hydrolyzed formaldehyde, water extraction method; GB/T 6672 Plastics film and sheeting - Determination of thickness by mechanical scanning; GB 6675.2 Safety of toys - Part 2: Mechanical and physical properties; GB 6675.3 Safety of toys - Part 3: Flammability; GB 6675.4 Safety of toys - Part 4: Migration of certain elements.

GB/T 17592 Textiles - Determination of the banned azo colourants; GB 18401 National general safety technical code for textile products; GB/T 19941.1 and GB/T 19941.2 Leather and fur - Determination of formaldehyde content; GB/T 22048 Determination of certain phthalate esters in toys and children's products; GB 27887-2024 Child restraint systems for power-driven vehicles; GB/T 41413 Determination of migration of N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances in toys; GB/T 41524 Determination of short chain chlorinated paraffins in toy materials.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

3.1 wheeled child conveyance: vehicle designed for the transportation of one or more children that can be manually steered while being pulled or pushed, composed of one or more pram bodies, seat units or car seats for children, or their combinations, connected to the chassis.

3.2 pram body: structure with essentially vertical and continuous sides ending in an internal base, designed to transport one or more children in a primarily horizontal position.

3.3 seat unit: structure with a backrest, fixed or adjustable to a reclining or lying flat position, designed to support one or more children.

3.4 chassis: wheeled framework with one or more handles for pushing or pulling, designed to take one or more of the pram body, seat unit, car seat for children, or their combination.

3.5 pram: vehicle designed to carry a lying child, comprising a chassis and one or more pram bodies. 3.6 pushchair: vehicle designed to carry a sitting child, comprising a chassis and one or more seat units or car seats for children.

4 General rules and test conditions

The clause fixes the test sample, the principle of the most onerous condition - the configuration in which the conveyance is least favourable is the one to be tested - the tolerances of the test equipment, the test conditions, the treatment of pneumatic tyres, the determination of the protected volumes and the determination of the junction line.

5 Test equipment

The equipment is specified one piece at a time: the test masses, the test plug gauges, the angle measuring devices, the hinged board, the small parts cylinder, the clamp, the inclined platform, the rectangular stops, the plug gauge of 76.2 mm diameter and the machine for the dynamic durability test.

6 Materials

The clause covers what the child is in contact with: material quality, migratable elements, plasticizers, formaldehyde, decomposable harmful aromatic amine dyes, requirements for pH value, migratable N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances, short chain chlorinated paraffins, and metal surfaces.