. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/PHL/28
22 October 2002
(02-5787)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   PHILIPPINES
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Bureau of Product Standards, Department of Trade and Industry
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:           
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Steel sheets and coils
(ICS 77.120.10)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Philippine
National Standard (DPNS) 2003:2002 – Continuous hot-dip zinc/5% aluminum alloy coated
steel sheets ( 6 pages, English)
6. Description of content:   This draft Philippine National Standard specifies the
characteristics of various steel of commercial, lockforming and structural qualities coated
by a continuous hot dip zinc/5% aluminum alloy coating process.  The product is intendedfor applications requiring corrosion resistance, formability and paintability.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
This draft Philippine National Standard is a modified adoption of the International Standard
ISO 14788:1998, Continuous hot-dip zinc-5% alumi num alloy coated steel sheets and coils.
In this standard, certain modifications of the original ISO has been made due to climatic and
geographic local condition and the particular needs of the galvanizing industry.  These
deviations and additional information have been added directly to the clauses to which theyare referred.
8. Relevant documents:   The following standards contain provisions which, through
reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard.  At the time of publication, the
editions indicated were valid.  All standards are subject to possibility of applying the most
recent editions of the standards indicated below.  Members of IEC and ISO maintain
registers of currently valid International Standards
ISO 2178:1982, Non-magnetic coatings on magnetic substrates – Measurement of coating
thickness – Magnetic method.G/TBT/N/PHL/28
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ISO 3497:1990 – Metallic coatings – Measurement of coating thickness – X-ray
spectrometric methods
ISO 6892:1998 – Metallic materials – Tensile testing at ambient temperature.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Fifteen (15) days after publication in theOfficial Gazette or newspapers of general
circulation
10. Final date for comments:  17 December 2002
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
Bureau of Product Standards, WTO/TBT Enquiry Point, Department of Trade and Industry,
361 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City, Metro Manila, PhilippinesTel.: (63 2) 890-5227; Fax:  (63 2) 890-5131;  E-mail:  bps@dti.dti.gov.ph