G/TBT/N/TZA/548  
8 April 2021  
(21-2951) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  TANZANIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Tanzania Bureau of Standards  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
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):  Other 
products of the chemical industry (ICS 71.100.99)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  CDC 19 (720) 
DTZS Denatured Ethanol for Use as Cooking and Appliance Fuel – Specification 
(17 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Tanzania Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and tests method for denatured ethanol for use as cooking or heating appliance fuel, or 
both.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer inf ormation, labelling; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• TZS 644 / ISO 3170 Petroleum liquids – Manual sampling.  
• TZS 1445/ISO 3165 Sampling of chemical product for industrial use – Safety in 
sampling.  
• TZS 2273 -2/ISO 10101 -2 Natural gas - Determination of water by the Karl Fischer 
method - Part 2: Titration procedure.  
• TZS 2273 -3 / ISO 10101 -3: Natural gas — Determination of water by the Karl 
Fischer method — Part 3: Coulometric procedure.  
• FTZS 2522/ISO 1388 -2 Ethanol for industrial use – Methods of test – Part 2: 
Detection of alkalinity or acidity to phenolphthalein.  
• ASTM D4815 Test Method for Determination of MTBE, ETBE, TAME, DIPE, tertiary -
Amyl Alcohol and C1 to C4 Alcohols in Gasoline by Gas Chromatography published 
by ASTM International . 
• ASTM D6045 – 20 Standard Test Method for Colour of Petroleum Products by the 
Automatic Tristimulus Method, published by ASTM International.  G/TBT/N/TZA/548  
 
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  • ISO 22854 Liquid petroleum products — Determination of hydrocarbon types and 
oxygenates in automotive, motor gasol ine and in ethanol (E85) automotive fuel 
— Multidimensional gas chromatography method, published by International 
Organization for Standardization (ISO).  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  June 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months from adoption  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Contact person(s):  
Ms. Bahati Samillani (NEP officer) and Mr. Clavery Chausi  
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)  
Morogoro/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O Box 9524  
Dar Es Salaam  
+(255) 22 2450206  
nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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